Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 84240
kde keyboard shortcuts aren't consistent
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:51:09 EDT
Description of problem: For the sake of consistency, shouldn't these two operations share the same shortcut: New shell tab in konsole: <ctl><alt><n> New browser tab in konqueror: <ctl><shift><n> I don't know if we care about this, but there are inconsistencies across desktop environments as well: Previous tab in konsole: <shift><left arrow>; Next tab: <shift><right arrow> Previous tab in gnome-terminal: <ctl><pg up>; Next tab: <ctl><pg down> kdebase-3.1-6 gnome-terminal-2.2.1-2
I think this stuff mostly needs to be addressed upstream; changing keybindings rapidly gets you going around in circles (if you change one it creates a conflict with another so you change that which then conflicts with something else and so on). So you need to decide on the keybindings as a giant global table before you start changing them in any one place. See http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/keyboardnav.html for the big tables for gnome. Anyway I'd tend to just move this upstream, and hope open-hci@freedesktop.org considers developing a common keybindings standard.
(bug housekeeping) <ctrl>-<shift>-<n> opens a new session/tab in konsole (as an alternative to <ctrl>-<alt>-<n>) in RHEL3. I don't imagine that the GNOME and KDE keybindings will merge anytime soon. REOPEN if you find that this is a useful bug for tracking this issue.