[KPhotoAlbum] Why do Keyboard shortcuts act globally

[Hassan Ibraheem]

2009/12/21 Dominik Stadler <dominik.stadler at gmx.at>

> hi,
>
> Sorry for the repeated posts, but I found out by myself in the meantime
> after reporting a bug for kipi-plugins at
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=219523
>
> If anybody is interested: These keys can be configured as part of the
> overall System Settings, under "keyboard/mouse" there is a section for
> global keyboard shortcuts.
>
> Why these are global shortcuts and why they use keyboard combinations that
> are very commonly used for a default task still eludes me, though.
>
> Thanks... Dominik.
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 9:53 AM, Dominik Stadler <dominik.stadler at gmx.at>wrote:
>
>> 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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I couldn't reproduce that behavior here on KPA 4.1.1 nor KPA SVN on Fedora.
Have you tried reproducing this with Gwenview or other applications using
kipi-plugins?


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Hassan Ibraheem
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