Among others, it happens in Kate (but it is not KDE-specific, it happens in pure Qt applications too, I just can't think of one off the top of my head that everyone is likely to have installed).
Press Ctrl-N, receive a popup instead of a new file: (title) Ambiguous Shortcut Detected — Kate The key sequence 'Ctrl+N' is ambiguous. Use 'Configure Shortcuts' from the 'Settings' menu to solve the ambiguity. No action will be triggered. Go to Settings -> Configure shortcuts, search for "new" Set alternate shortcut to "custom - None". Ctrl-N now works. bad kate package: 4:15.08.2-1 (stretch/sid) good kate package: 4:4.14.2-2 (jessie - can be easily downgraded) On further investigation, the Qt4 version of kate had the alternate shortcut set to None by default instead of a duplicate of the primary shortcut like the Qt5 version does. -Ben On Sun, Nov 1, 2015 at 9:47 AM, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer <perezme...@gmail.com> wrote: > tag 803612 moreinfo unreproducible > thanks > > On Saturday 31 October 2015 12:58:49 Ben Longbons wrote: >> Package: libqt5gui5 >> Version: 5.5.1+dfsg-5 >> Severity: important >> >> Dear Maintainer, >> >> In all Qt applications, pressing nearly any shortcut does not perform >> the requested action. Instead, it just pops up a box saying "ambiguous >> shortcut detected". > > Hi Ben! For what it's worth I don't see this bahvior on any Qt5 app. It would > be good if you can give us more info, like what DM are you using, an example > app and shortcut to use, etc. > >> This is caused by the fact that, by default, the primary and alternate >> keybindings are set to the same key sequence. >> >> Apparently, the dispatcher >> logic is unable to detect that the two shortcuts refer to the same >> action. >> >> In previous versions of Qt, this was not a problem. > > Please please give us an example. > > Kinds regards, Lisandro. > > -- > Antiguo proverbio de El Machi: "Dado el apropiado grado de profundidad, la > ineptitud es indistinguible del sabotaje" > > Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer > http://perezmeyer.com.ar/ > http://perezmeyer.blogspot.com/
