https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445623
Bug ID: 445623
Summary: When a window type is not selected for a window filter
on a khotkeys shortcut, no windows are matched instead
of all of them
Product: systemsettings
Version: 5.23.2
Platform: Archlinux Packages
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: kcm_khotkeys
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
CC: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
Issue / limitation pointed out by Dmitry here:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=444535#c1 who suggested I file a separate
bug report about it. I can provide repro steps if necessary.
Actual behavior:
If you make a keyboard shortcut in the khotkeys system setting UI, and that
shortcut has a window filter, if you don't actively select a bullet to indicate
the type of window you want to match, no windows are matched.
Expected behavior:
When creating a filter, if you don't choose a specific type of window to match,
most users would expect that part of the filter to be inactive and all window
types to be matched. Presumably the user wants to filter on something else,
like window title or role.
Suggested fix:
Simply changing the behavior to match all windows if no window type is selected
would still not be ideal from a UI perspective. That's because the user is not
given any way to actively select "all windows" for the type filter, and if the
user accidentally or deliberately selects a type filter, there's no way to undo
that and go back to matching all windows (because of the way radio buttons work
in QT).
So the best solution here is to add an additional radio button that says "All
windows" or something similar, and have that selected as the default option in
the filter widget UI.
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