{"id":108,"date":"2009-02-06T19:11:19","date_gmt":"2009-02-06T16:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2009-02-06T19:11:19","modified_gmt":"2009-02-06T16:11:19","slug":"a-truly-lame-kde-4-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/2009\/02\/a-truly-lame-kde-4-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"A truly lame KDE 4 issue (or: command keyboard shortcuts not working)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi,<\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, I've installed KDE 4 on my Ubuntu laptop, as I wanted to replace GNOME. The GUI and default styles are really beautiful (finally someone realizes that black-based colors are best. like good old console).<\/p>\n<p>One of the first things I always do when customizing a new environment, is assigning a keyboard shortcut for running <em>konsole<\/em>. After a little struggling &amp; googling, I realized that setting a <strong>command<\/strong> shortcut is <strong>not<\/strong> available through the keyboard settings, nor through the \"properties\" menu of the desktop icon, because there's no such menu anymore. I think that it's a bad design, but that's one thing.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>right way <\/strong>for setting a command shortcut is through the menu editor (right click on K menu). After choosing an application from the menu, it's possible to assign it a shortcut key.<\/p>\n<p>... <strong>Or so it seems!<\/strong> I've chosen my favorite key combination (ctrl+space), and it didn't work. Some googling revealed that it's a <a href=\"http:\/\/bugs.kde.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=170455\">known bug<\/a> with a normal severity, which will only be fixed on KDE 4.2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bottom line:<\/strong> <strong>KDE 4.1<\/strong> (sounds like a mature version to me..) <strong>does not support assigning keyboard shortcuts to commands <\/strong>although the option is present with no warnings, and nobody is going to fix that for 4.1. This is, what I call <strong>LAME<\/strong> (read: unprofessional).<\/p>\n<p>On my Debian desktop I still have KDE 3.5 (which is a great product), because <em>sid<\/em> is still in a deep freeze. Maybe it's good, after all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, A few days ago, I&#8217;ve installed KDE 4 on my Ubuntu laptop, as I wanted to replace GNOME. The GUI and default styles are really beautiful (finally someone realizes that black-based colors are best. like good old console). One of the first things I always do when customizing a new environment, is assigning a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[198,69,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.held.org.il\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}