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Just a short note that i commited a change to kdebase reenabling shortcut support in kmenuedit. It's now possible again to assign a global shortcut to an application in kmenuedit. It was possible for some time in kshortcuts but it looks like no one noticed.

Please tell me if you have problem with that feature.

The gui side in khotkeys is not yet finished but i'm working on it. If someone would like to help polish that contact me.

When working with shortcuts you sooner or later encounter the problem of having action shortcut conflicts. Action shortcuts conflict if they are active in the same context and are either identical or one is part of the other (ambiguous).

Conflicting shortcuts in a kde4 application trigger some very frustrating behaviour: None. Nothing happens. No action is triggered. QShortcutEvents has a property to check if an event is ambiguous. QAction::event() checks if it is set and then silently drops the event. No signal is emitted.

Current State

There are three sources for conflicting shortcuts in KDE applications: shortcuts, standard shortcuts (KStandardAction and KStandardShortcuts) and global shortcuts. Global shortcuts are out of scope for this post.