[PATCH]Fix conflict between cut and delete shortcuts

Mark Rose kde at markrose.ca
Fri Nov 2 20:25:49 GMT 2007


On Friday 02 November 2007 2:10:11 pm Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> as noted here:
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151601
>
> there's currently a shortcut conflict between the cut and the delete
> action.
>
> The attached patch fixes this by removing the Shift+Del shortcut when
> creating the Cut action. The alternative would be changing the
> delete-shortcut to something like Ctrl+Del, but that would mean
> breaking with KDE3-behaviour.

Shift+Del is not only KDE3 behaviour to delete a file, but also used on 
Windows for 12 years. It's almost as universal as Ctrl-C for copy. Breaking 
standard shortcuts is a terrible idea from a usability standpoint.

Mark




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