Package: kicker Version: 4:3.3.1-4 Severity: normal In prior versions of KDE (at least before 3.2), the Windows key could be used as a plain modifier key. Since then KDE has, in addition, accumulated the nasty habit of popping up the K/Start menu when that key is tapped by its lonesome.
Although I understand this may have been done to better mimic the behaviour of MS Windows, it would have been really nice to make this configurable somehow. As is, this behaviour seems to be *hardcoded* into kicker/kbutton.cpp (see the "#ifdef HAVE_XTEST" sections), rendering KDE an excercise in frustration for some of us who have adopted the key as a regular and frequently-used modifier (e.g., all my window manager actions are bound to Winkey-based combos). This is because, although in the current form the Win key can be used in both capacities, it leads to trouble when the user changes his or her mind in mid-key-combo, which results in an unexpected (and very unwelcome) K-Menu popup. This is exacerbated if the user has already started typing something instead, since the focus is yanked from the current app to the K-Menu. In my workflow this happens excruciatingly frequently. There does not appear to be any reasonable workaround, even with "xmodmap", as something always breaks (e.g., mapping Win key to "HyperL" in X, leads to missing "Win" modifier in KDE). I'm aware that the K-Menu will not popup on Win tap if the NumLock is on, but this is not a viable solution, as often one needs NumLock set in a specific way due to the demands of what one is doing (i.e., using the NumLock as it was meant to be used). Please, please, *please* make this hack runtime configurable. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-1-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages kicker depends on: ii kdebase-data 4:3.3.1-4 KDE Base (shared data) ii kdelibs4 4:3.3.1-1 KDE core libraries ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-5 Library of functions for 2D graphi ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libfam0c102 2.6.10-1 client library to control the FAM ii libgcc1 1:3.4.1-5 GCC support library ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 Inter-Client Exchange library ii libidn11 0.5.2-3 GNU libidn library, implementation ii libkonq4 4:3.3.1-4 Core libraries for KDE's file mana ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-1 PNG library - runtime ii libqt3c102-mt 3:3.3.3-7 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v ii libsm6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System Session Management ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-9 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System protocol client li ii libxext6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8 X Window System miscellaneous exte ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxtst6 4.3.0-2 X Window System event recording an ii xlibs 4.3.0-2 X Window System client libraries m ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-1 compression library - runtime -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
