From kde-core-devel  Fri Nov 22 23:14:05 2002
From: Ellis Whitehead <ellis () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2002 23:14:05 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix line edit in ksirc
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103800684509234

On Friday 22 November 2002 19:29, George Staikos wrote:
> On Friday November 22 2002 05:15, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:54:28AM -0500, George Staikos wrote:
> > > This patch fixes the lineedit problems I have been seeing in ksirc for
> > > quite some time now.  Shift+Backspace was erasing two characters
> > > instead of one. This fixes it for me.
> > >
> > > Ok to apply?
> >
> > I think that's a workaround for the real bug: the lineedit receives
> > multiple accel events for any shift key combination. It's the same
> > for shift-left/right for example, and gdb/debug output show the
> > same. I remember that this was caused through the global event filter
> > changes in kaccel, for which Ellis also applied a fix to solve this
> > very problem. But it appears it works only for key events without
> > modifiers. Ellis, any idea?
>
>   Well I think that if we don't get a fix asap, we should commit a
> workaround for all the known key problems and deal with the real fix after
> 3.1.0.

ksirc's method of handling accelerators is very strange.  When I looked at the 
code a month or so ago, it seemed like the fact that it worked at all must be 
due to a bug in Qt somewhere. *grin*  I'll check it out again tomorrow to see 
what I can do...

Ciao,
Ellis