Re: Bug#351539: zim: backspace key send delete
(for debian-gtk-gnome@lists.debian.org readers, Julien Blache and me
triggered a bug in Zim (also present in Dia and which was present in
Nautilus 2.8 iirc) where the delete key was binded as a gtk accelerator
to the Delete action. Problem is that gtk doesnt handles this correctly
with some keybindings.
In our case, Shift+Backspace is binded to Delete (mac laptop users don't
have a delete key). But in that case, the gtk shift handling causes the
Backspace key to be treated as if it was a Shift+Backspace.
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 12:28 +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote:
> > It might not necessarily be a bug, probably more something of an
> > undocumented feature. Looking at other gtk programs I notice that
>
> This is a bug in the way the accel code handles the modifiers, and has
> been brought up several times already as the original submitter found
> out :/
>
> They're basically trying to make it so that ctrl-z and ctrl-Z both
> trigger a ctrl-z accel, etc. And obviously, they've got it wrong on
> occasion...
Yes, this is why, when I removed the Shift+Backspace binding to Delete
in my keymap it restarted to work. And the same occurs in Dia and I
guess it was the problem in nautilus too, but I didn't find a changelog
entry saying they had removed the Delete accelerator.
This only shows on powerpc laptops because we are the only one (i guess)
to have delete binded on Shift+Backspace.
>
> > almost non have an accelerator (keybinding) for the "Delete" menu
> > entry. The default 'gtk-delete' stock item does not add a
> accelerator
> > to the menu.
>
> I'm told those keys (delete, backspace, some others) are special-cased
> in the accel code, though it seems the special-casing is broken :)
So maybe opening a bug on gtk would be an option (CC:ing
debian-gtk-gnome@lists.debian.org )
>
> > Could you instead of removing the menu entre just change the label
> and
> > the accelerator to 'undef' (in PageView.pm) ? This should remove the
> > keybinding. If this works I'll commit it for the next release.
>
> It works as expected removing the label and the accel.
>
> Now zim will be usable again as my scratchpad/todolist :)
Removing the accel (pressing backspace when the "Delete" menu entry is
selected, while having editable menu accelerators) work. But it'd be
nice if those settings were saved somewhere :)
Regards,
--
Yves-Alexis Perez
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