Binary package hint: kde
I found this bug by being stupid.
I was doing some "tidyup" of hidden/config files in my home directory (which is the product of 5 years and a dozen or more distros) and assumed that files outside of .kde would not affect my desktop. Oops.
Anyway, I had a konqueror menu item mapped to win + K keys. Because the "cleanup", the application launchers on the panel became non-functional, so I deleted them and added them back. win + K changed behaviour -- whereas before it had loaded konqueror with a specific view profile, now it loaded the generic konqueror. I went into the menu editor to find it - but couldn't, it was no longer in the menu. I went into kcontrol, and searched on "key", and found the key mapping dialogs, and looked through them all. win + K is not there either. I then decided to make a new menu item and map that to win + K; however, I can't, because it's already in use. So now I'm stuck with an key combination that is not editable through the UI.
In summary, I consider the bug to be that application launching key combinations both are and are not bound to the KDE menu. Clearly, it is possible to remove a menu item, but leave the key mapped, thus making that key combination uneditable going forward. I would like the application launching key combinations to be directly editable from kcontrol, perhaps in addition to the menu editor.
Hi,
Thanks for sending in this report. I'm trying to understand what you're experiencing.
You say:
"I then decided to make a new menu item and map that to win + K; however, I can't, because it's already in use."
Could you describe this more fully? Are you doing this from kcontrol? What exactly happens? Do you get the 'key conflict' dialog? ("The 'Win+k' key combination has already been allocated to the [something] action. Do you want to reassign it from that action to the current one?")
Could you also tell us which version of ubuntu you're using?
Dan