[Konsole-devel] [Bug 170879] New: reduce the number of default shortcuts

[Andreas Pakulat]

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170879

           Summary: reduce the number of default shortcuts
           Product: konsole
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Unlisted Binaries
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: konsole-devel at kde.org
        ReportedBy: apaku at gmx.de


Posting this as a wishlist for consideration. I think konsole has too many
shortcuts by default. Its a terminal application and terminal apps are usually
not written with X11 in mind, hence they assume they can use all kind of
shortcuts as they wish. This leads to a problem, konsole captures the shortcuts
and thinks its their own instead of posting to the application - now the
application seems to be broken.

I've just been bitten by this because Ctrl+B is bound to Bookmark - not sure
thats used so often to warrant a default shortcut, but then again I'm no
usability expert and have no data either - and also bound to an action in mutt
here. It took me a bit to realize that konsole might be eating the shortcut, I
doubt that "joe average" can make that connection and hence will file a
bugreport against whatever app doesn't work on konsole - or if he tries another
terminal emulator against konsole.

So it would be good to reduce the number of default shortcuts to the bare
minimum. Or always forward the key events to the application and only handle
them in konsole when its not handled in the app - dunno if thats possible.


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