https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=397832
Bug ID: 397832 Summary: I wish shortcuts for Split View and others violating "least-surprise" principle be removed Product: konsole Version: master Platform: Other OS: Linux Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: wishlist Priority: NOR Component: split-view Assignee: konsole-de...@kde.org Reporter: kdebugsfor...@gmx.com Target Milestone: --- I wish shortcuts for Split View in Konsole be removed or be with such key combinations that it is impossible to activate split-view ACCIDENTALLY while typing. I am using Konsole all the time to do my development work by editing files in a text editor from the command line. Excuse me for having fat fingers and a cheap microscopic keyboard whose CTRL is wedged directly below SHIFT but do I have to suffer the idiocy of Konsole and its keen developers to split the window/screen/view every time amid furiously writing code and accidentally my fat fingers hit on the evil combination CTRL+( or CTRL+) ?????? Each time this happens and it happens quite a lot, almost hourly, it forces me to save my file, exit the editor, exit the dreaded Konsole and then spawn a new Konsole, navigate to the dir with my files and remember which one was editing, fire up my trusted text editor and try to remember which of the hundreds of lines of code I was editing at the time Konsole and its bright UI zealots decided to ambush me like karate-master Kato on Peter Sellers in a Pink Panther movie. When did it become "always be prepared for nasty surprises in KDE?" It should not be this way. It should be "least surpirse"! Be conservative guys! You implemented a split screen feature. That's great and a challenging programming task well executed by code virtuosos. But just leave it there. Leave it in the View Menu for the user to select if (and when) required. Personal opinion: Why on earth anyone would like a shortcut to split a screen. SHORT-CUT is for something you do almost constantly like copy-paste. There should not be short cuts for rarely used items which have such a drastic effect and require to initiate a very tedious procedure to reverse it. Alternatively, just let the user add that shortcut to suit his/her needs. Also a shortcut's ease of access (e.g. number of key modifiers) should be directly proportional to the frequency that action is performed by the majority of the users. Why on earth the UI expert of Konsole gave it such an easy (which means probability of accidentally happening increases) shortcut? CTRL+( ??? which is CTRL+SHIFT+9 in my keyboard. With SHIFT+9 hit every few seconds when I write code for calling a function. Just because people program this kind of stuff (Konsole etc.) for free it does not mean that they have to re-write the books and the rules as we know them unless for a good reason and when the experiment fails they should wrap up and fix it. Thank you for the free software (which I am also contributing to and publishing) but understand the least-surprise principle at least if you aspire, as I understand it, one day to work for Microsoft. bw, bliako -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.