Review Request 118783: Set the normal shortcut when setting the default shortcut as well

[Vishesh Handa]

> On June 16, 2014, 7:10 p.m., Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> > I would like to get the opinion from people who designed kglobalaccel. Personally I do not understand what the default shortcuts are for and why they are needed.
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> > From reading the documentation my understanding is that your patch is wrong and instead the applications need to be fixed (it's just the default as what one can click in the config interface, but not the loaded global shortcut).
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> Vishesh Handa wrote:
>     The difference between an "active" and "default" shortcut is that the user cannot configure a default shortcut. Have a look at the systemsettings for global shortcuts. You'll get a better idea.
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>     About the application being wrong, I disagree. Most people would think that calling 'setDefaultShortcut(..)' would actually set the shortcut and not just write it to a config file. The way I see it, we either except this patch, or we change kglobalaccel (the daemon) to actually utilize the default shortcut. If you want, I can submit a patch for that. It's just about 4-5 lines.
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> Martin Gräßlin wrote:
>     I don't know. Given the documentation I understand it as "this is just the default shortcut", if one wants to have the global shortcut, the setShortcut method needs to be used. Whether it's a valid use case to only have the default shortcut, I'm not sure. But I assume that this was intended behavior by the people who implemented it.
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>     Overall my feeling is that default is not intended to be used at all. But as said: we need input here from people more experienced with kglobalaccel

I've been running this patch for a day now, and it is buggy. Custom shortcuts seem to get overwritten with the default one. I'm not bothering to fix it, as it would be best to figure out what course of action we want to take.


- Vishesh


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On June 16, 2014, 4:49 p.m., Vishesh Handa wrote:
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> (Updated June 16, 2014, 4:49 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks and Martin Gräßlin.
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> Repository: kglobalaccel
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> Description
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>     When a client calls setDefaultShortcut, only the default shortcut is
>     set. This makes sense, however kglobalaccel doesn't actually do anything
>     with the global shortcut, it just writes it to the configuration and
>     reads it back.
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>     All the actual logic is implemented behind "active" or "normal" shortcuts.
>     In kdelibs4, most applications would call KAction::setGlobalShorcut which
>     had a default of setting BOTH the active and the default shortcut. Again,
>     I'm not sure what they point of this was if the default shortcut does not
>     actually do anything.
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>     This fixes bugs such as the brightness key not working because
>     Powerdevil only sets the "default" shortcut.
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> Diffs
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>   src/kglobalaccel.cpp 54d18ec 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/118783/diff/
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> Testing
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> Thanks,
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> Vishesh Handa
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