[PATCH]Fix conflict between cut and delete shortcuts

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Fri Nov 2 20:49:10 GMT 2007


On Freitag, 2. November 2007, Mark Rose wrote:
> 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.

Well, same thing applies to Cut with Shift+Del, thats also rather widely 
used, at least I know that from my MS DOS times ;) Thats why I opted 
for the change in dolphin, instead of kdelibs.

Andreas

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