[KPhotoAlbum] Why do Keyboard shortcuts act globally

[Dominik Stadler]

One thing I found out is that this is caused by the kipi-plugins, e.g. the
"rotate plugin" registers SHIFT-CTRL-LEFT/RIGHT, so it may be related to
those, right?

Thanks... Dominik

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Dominik Stadler <dominik.stadler at gmx.at>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I think it strange that some keyboard combinations are catched by
> kphotoalbum even if it does not have focus. E.g.
> <SHIFT>-<CTRL>-<LEFT>/<RIGHT> is suddenly turning my images, even while I am
> typing this mail in Gmail when I try to mark multiple words using this
> keyboard shortcut. I think this is happening since some time already ,not
> just in the latest release, so not a recent regression, I just didn't have
> time to ask earlier.
>
> So is kphotoalbum registering global keyboard shortcuts on-purpose? Can I
> turn it off? Or is this a strange bug?
>
> This is with KPhotoAlbum 4.1.1 from
> https://launchpad.net/~dominik-stadler/+archive/ppa/+packages<https://launchpad.net/%7Edominik-stadler/+archive/ppa/+packages>on Ubuntu Karmic with KDE 4.3.4.
>
> Thanks... Dominik.
>
>
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