ThinkPad Hotkeys

[Sven Lankes]

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:37:17AM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:

[Multiple shortcuts for one global shortcut action]

> It's actually possible, but the UI doesn't support it. This just needs to be 
> fixed. There are other contexts where you want 2 global shortcuts as well, 
> like multimedia actions (multimedia key and plain key combo). It's also a 
> regression from KDE 3 which allowed this just fine. There's a bug filed for 
> that at bugs.kde.org, but sadly upstream doesn't care. :-( 

Can you point me to it? I've searched bko (component: systemsettings)
but couldn't find the bug.

I have tried:

https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?query_format=specific&order=relevance+desc&bug_status=__open__&product=systemsettings&content=shortcuts

> I may end up just 
> patching the Fedora packages to add a "global alternate shortcut" entry to 
> those dialogs.

Maybe $upstream would be happy to apply that patch.
 
>> Battery:
>>   This one is interesting - the powerdevil battery plasmoid actually has
>>   keyboard shortcuts in it's settings and setting it to "Battery" will
>>   bring up the battery screen when the shortcut is pressed just fine.
>> 
>>   This should probably default to Battery as it's currently not set at
>>   all. But why doesn't that show up under "Global Shortcuts" in System
>>   Settings?
 
> Because it has to be set in the preferences for the plasmoid.

Filed as:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=567929

I'll try to find out what needs to be done to make this happen unless
someone beats me to it.
 
> > Sleep & Suspend:
> >   I cannot see any way to make those Buttons Suspend to RAM & Disk in
> >   the Keyboard settings. Anyone?
 
> This probably needs to be added to PowerDevil, similarly to how the 
> brightness keys are.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=182538

Looks like it will be fixed for 4.5

This is something we should look into backporting - even if it results
in one or more untranslated strings.

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