text area focus and key shortcuts -- bug or feature?

[Jesse Yurkovich]

Hello,
  I've been hooked on multiple konsole sessions for quite a while now and have 
grown accostumed to the very fast and natural shift-left, shift-right key 
shortcuts to switch between sessions -- or tabs in konsole now.

So I proceded to change my shortcuts to Konqueror for these actions.  However, 
I was supprised to find out that while I was editing some text in a form text 
area, as soon as I hit shift-left to select some text ... well you can guess 
what happened -- konq switched tabs :(

I have the 'Backspace' key mapped to 'Back' and that works fine i.e., If konq 
has the focus hitting Backspace goes Back in history and if a text area has 
focus a Backspace is entered.

Is it the desired behavior with tab switching ?  Why can't the event make it 
to the text area first before being filtered by konq?

-Jesse