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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Bug#17354: what exactly does this wish request?
From:       Daniel Lintjens <daniel.lintjens () tasking ! com>
Date:       2001-06-05 8:17:47
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Hi Marc,

Sorry to reply so late, but I've been gone a few day's.

What I want is to have complete control over all the keybindings in kde. In 
emacs and bash I use ctrl-a to go to the beginning of the line. In most KDE 
applications ctrl-a is bound to "select all". You can (in most apps) change 
the keybindings, but without effect if you change ctrl-a. One of the 
developers informed me this was because the qedit (?) from the qtlib has 
"build in" keybindings, and ctrl-a is one of them. I'm not sure why exactly I 
couldn't solve this myself (edit the qt sources and build -> no more problem 
right?) but I think a more global solution would be better, as more people 
complain about this here at work. (where a lot of people use the kde desktop)

If you need a testcase, use Kmail, the app with wich I encounter this problem 
almost every day. You can edit the keybindings, but changing ctrl-a has no 
effect.

Maybe there should be a central control of the default keybindings in kde 
(based on the qt bindings?) so all qedit's could be changed at once to the 
users like. But then again, I am not that familiar with the kde sources to 
"see" the right solution for this.

IN SHORT:
On Saturday 02 June 2001 17:52, you wrote:
> Is it that CTRL-A should be bound to "goto bol" or that it shouldn't be
> bound at all?
It's ok to be bound, as long as the user is able to "unbound" every 
keybinding, including this ctrl-a



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