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On Mittwoch, 3. Juni 2015 17:04:00 CEST, Jan Kundrát wrote:
Hi,
the kconfigwidgets library defines Shift+Del as a standard
alternative shortcut for the "Cut" action. This dates back to
2001 [1]. A problem with this shortcut is that applications
traditionally use Shift+Del as a shortcut for forced delete, or
to distinguish move-to-trash from delete.
Some apps effectively patch out Shift+Del from Cut [2] [3], and
there are bug reports requesting this for other apps as well
[4].
What about removing Shift+Del as a secondary shortcut of the
"Cut" standard action in kconfigwidgets? The rationale for this
change is that this shortcut is being used for something else by
multiple applications. A reason against this is that it is a
long-standing default.
Cheers,
Jan
[1] http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=kdelibs.git&a=commitdiff&h=3a7bc675a
[2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286212
[3]
http://quickgit.kde.org/?p=digikam.git&a=blobdiff&h=10d5384210027ad974cace90e41dbe11689b95ea&hp=0486238971d837cd0e87d4fd55f08b3b957cbf71&hb=bdf416be9a5dcc3aedc58e64718b222890c49600&f=digikam%2Fmain%2Fdigikamapp.cpp
[4] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=347373
FYI, Shift+Del is IBMs common user access variant[5], that's why it's in
use.
(The most important CUA is Ctrl+Ins, though - since MS was smart enough to
pick Ctrl+C, what's not really ideal... ;-)
Later on MS turned Shift+Del into deletion, bypassing the "trashcan", so
that's likely what (notably "younger") users connect it to nowadays.
Cheers,
Thomas
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
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