KGlobalAccel in KDE3.5.5 and KMix

[Christian Esken]

Hello,

I am just wondering if anybody has an idea about the issue below.
Has there been a change in KDE3.5.5 regarding KGlobalAccel or KAccel that could explain it?

   Christian


Am Samstag, 25. November 2006 11:53 schrieb Christian Esken:
> Hello,
> 
> I received some bug reports ([1],[2]) about global shortcut problems in KMix. People upgrade from KDE3.5.2 (or 3.5.4) to KDE3.5.5, and it simply stops to work. There are several very interesting aspects in this:
> 1) People report it broken in *various* distributions (SuSE, KUbuntu, Arch Linux)
> 1a) So this is not a packaging issue of a certain distribution
> 1b) It works perfect for me in SuSE10.0 (reported as broken). This is independent of whether I use the "official" SuSE pacakges or compile it myself.
> 1c) It works perfect for me in KUbuntu 6.10 Live CD (reported as broken)
> 1d) As it works for me, it doesn't sound like a general KMix problem.
> 2) The shortcuts work in other applications, even those who use Global Shortcuts
> 3) It is not the ususal case (that some other unknown application has taken the shortcut). This was check
> 4) It is not a problem of special keys with specific keyboards (e.g. the infamous Logitech XF86AudioRaiseVolume issue). The problem is also there with regular key combinations (e.g. CTRL-m).
> 
> I am pretty stuck here, and would be very happy if someone could shed some light on this issue.
> 
>   Christian
> 
> [1] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=136378
> [2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=137810
> 
> 

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