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.
Created attachment 305854 [details] khotkeysrc.bad: the hot key file that caused 'e' to drop.
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.
An excellent candidate to report upstream to bugs.kde.org.
Please file upstream and then add tracker info to this report. We will monitor upstream report for resolution
Upstream bug at https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162451
Thanks, we'll continue to track this issue upstream.