Review Request 129251: Remove Shift+Del as secondary shortcut for Cut

[Elvis Angelaccio]

> On Oct. 24, 2016, 11 a.m., Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > -1 it's an established shortcut for cut too. even https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts lists it in "Cut the selection and store it in the clipboard"

Ah, sorry I didn't know that. Still, the conflict is caused by kconfig itself and it's being worked around by applications. What should we do then?


- Elvis


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On Oct. 24, 2016, 10:47 a.m., Elvis Angelaccio wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 24, 2016, 10:47 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks, KDE Usability and Matthew Dawson.
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> Bugs: 357747
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=357747
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> Repository: kconfig
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> Description
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> This patch removes Shift+Del as secondary shortcut for the Cut action. This shortcut was set back in 2001.
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> Reasons for removing it:
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> * The expected standard behavior for this shortcut is "Permanently delete"
> * For the reason above, it is also set as primary shortcut for the `DeleteFile` action. This causes conflicts in applications.
> * For the reason above, many applications (e.g. Dolphin or Digikam) already resolve this conflict on their own.
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> Credits to Jan for the investigation: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347373#c2
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> Diffs
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>   src/gui/kstandardshortcut.cpp 92eb091382c7ab2110240cef21f29268be787250 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129251/diff/
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> Testing
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> Using Shift+Del in Gwenview now works as expected.
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> Thanks,
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> Elvis Angelaccio
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