https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383245
Bug ID: 383245
Summary: Enable keycode-based shortcuts rather than
character-based
Product: frameworks-kglobalaccel
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: mgraess...@kde.org
Reporter: ska...@gmail.com
CC: kdelibs-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: ---
As more and more users become multilingual and switch keyboard layout between
different languages this begins to have an increasing impact on the usability
of any keyboard shortcut.
Currently, given a shortcut defined as a sequence of characters, it may only be
reachable using different keys, or not at all if the current keyboard layout is
so much different.
A few examples:
CTRL-SHIFT-4 (this gets interpreted as CTRL-$ on a US keyboard), but after
switching to Hungarian, when pressing the same keys CTRL-! is being sent. On a
Russian layout that would turn into CTRL-;
So many mappings of the same keys make it impossible to optimally use keyboard
shortcuts in a multi-lingual environment.
Please allow shortcuts to be mapped to keycodes, so the same keystrokes can
work regardless of their logical mapping.
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