Bug 447179

Summary: in KDE4, unable to type key 'e'
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Tim Taiwanese Liim <tim.liim>
Component: kdebase-workspaceAssignee: Than Ngo <than>
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 9CC: fedora, kevin, ltinkl, rdieter, than, tuxbrewr
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khotkeysrc.bad: the hot key file that caused 'e' to drop.
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khotkeysrc.good: a good hot key file with minimum diff from the bad file. none

Description Tim Taiwanese Liim 2008-05-18 15:41:37 UTC
Description of problem:
    Upgrade from F8 to F9.  Login with KDE, open konsole (or any
    other app), unable to type the key 'e' (yes, the plain vowel
    'e').  Previously in F8, I configured personalized hotkeys
    (specifically Win+E), using kde control center.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
    kdebase-4.0.3-9.fc9.i386

How reproducible:
    always, on 3 different notebooks (two Sony Vaios, one Thinkpad T-23).

Steps to Reproduce:
The hard, standard way:
    1. In F8, use kde control center to configure hot key using Win+E.
    2. Upgrade to F9.
    3. Login to KDE, open konsole or any app.
    4. type in 'qwerty'.
The easy way:
    1. in F9, copy attached file "khotkeysrc.bad" to
           ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc
    2. Login to KDE, open konsole or any app.
    3. type in 'qwerty'.
  
Actual results:
    saw qwrty (no 'e').

Expected results:
    saw qwerty (with 'e').

Additional info:
    1. workaround: (for others who stumbled upon this issue)
           rm ~/.kde/share/config/khotkeysrc
       and recofigure your hot keys.

    2. I attached two files
                khotkeysrc.bad      # causing 'e' missing
                khotkeysrc.good     # 'e' works fine.
       so you can diff to find out the difference easily.

    3. I think the problem is the bad file has two 'Win+E'
       shortcuts assigned.  But since I did _not_ edit khotkeysrc
       prior to this issue, it must have come in from some Fedora
       processes, eg. during upgrade.  Nontheless, kde should not
       confuse 'e' with Win+E and drop the key 'e' in the presence
       of multiple Win+E.

Comment 1 Tim Taiwanese Liim 2008-05-18 15:41:37 UTC
Created attachment 305854 [details]
khotkeysrc.bad: the hot key file that caused 'e' to drop.

Comment 2 Tim Taiwanese Liim 2008-05-18 15:44:09 UTC
Created attachment 305855 [details]
khotkeysrc.good: a good hot key file with minimum diff from the bad file.

Diff both attachments reveals the difference that caused the key 'e' to
drop.

Comment 3 Rex Dieter 2008-05-21 13:06:56 UTC
An excellent candidate to report upstream to bugs.kde.org.

Comment 4 Steven M. Parrish 2008-05-21 13:16:37 UTC
Please file upstream and then add tracker info to this report.  We will monitor
upstream report for resolution

Comment 5 Tim Taiwanese Liim 2008-05-22 04:16:35 UTC
Upstream bug at
    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162451


Comment 6 Rex Dieter 2008-05-22 12:22:14 UTC
Thanks, we'll continue to track this issue upstream.