KHotkeys, Keyboard Shortcuts and KDE menu editor. Incompatible?

[Henrik Edberg]

Imho these three applications does not work very well together.

I'm not to used to KDE and KHotkeys, or at least I wasn't untill I 
started having problems with them. Because I wasn't used to them, when 
my FireFox shortcut stoped working after an apt-update (I don't know 
what actually changed) I managed to add Win-M as a keyboard shortcut for 
FireFox about nine time using the KDE menu editor, but it still wouldn't 
work as it did before.

The problem was that these three applications seems to have a sparate 
view of which shortcuts are available and which are already taken. After 
finally finding the KHotkeys application (that displays a big warning 
sign when started, which had, up untill then, kept me away) I found 
these nine keyboard shortcuts I had added by misstake and also a set of 
keyboard shortcuts from the Keyboard Shortcuts application.

After deleting all shortcuts and restoring just one copy of each 
everything was back to normal. A bit messy just to get some shortcuts 
working, dont' you think?

I don't understand how this could happend. Doesn't all these three 
applications read the same file/files, the file that keeps track of what 
shortcuts does what? If they don't, why not? :)

Update anomalys anyone?

/ Henrik Edberg