Exit Gwenview with ESC

[kustodian]

I setup Gwenview shortcut to Quit with ESC key, but when I press it I get this message:

The key sequence 'Esc' is ambiguous. Use 'Configure Shortcuts'
from the 'Settings' menu to solve the ambiguity.
No action will be triggered.

Is this a bug and how can it be fixed?

[Teunis]

Re: Exit Gwenview with ESC

Not a bug, 'ambiguous' means there is more than one action assigned to the ESC key and the system doesn't know which one you want to use.

So do as the message suggest and go through the Settings Menu to hunt down the other instance of ESC, it might not be important for you (Display. Back) and then you could remove/reassign it.

[kustodian]

Re: Exit Gwenview with ESC

Not a bug, 'ambiguous' means there is more than one action assigned to the ESC key and the system doesn't know which one you want to use.

So do as the message suggest and go through the Settings Menu to hunt down the other instance of ESC, it might not be important for you (Display. Back) and then you could remove/reassign it.

Esc by default closes the file opened, but it doesn't close Gwenview. The problem is there is no way to change the shortcut for close file

I exported shortcut keys settings and attached it so you can se there is no way to change that shortcut.

[Teunis]

Re: Exit Gwenview with ESC

I just used the supplied Settings Editor in GwenView and was able to change all Shortcut Keys, I set the Back to none and Close to Esc, no problem.
Because I use F for toggling of Full Screen and T for Thumbnails I had no use for the original Esc.

Although I run a Dutch version I'm sure you can recognise the settings in the attached screen shot.

[kustodian]

Re: Exit Gwenview with ESC

I can't find the Back command?

Here is my shortcut configuration dialog.

[Teunis]

Re: Exit Gwenview with ESC

Weird, this must be a version difference.

I showed screen shots of GwenView 2.3.0, part of KDE4.3 Beta 2.

But I had a look at version 1.4.2 with KDE3.5.10 and it allows a similar set up.

Most remarkable is there seems to be no ESC in your set up and yet the program complains about 'ambiguous' when you assign ESC to Close.

Here the 1.4.2 set up:

<ActionProperties>
 <Action shortcut="Escape" name="file_quit" />
 <Action shortcut="S" name="file_save_as" />
 <Action shortcut="V" name="flip" />
 <Action shortcut="Ctrl+Shift+F;F" name="fullscreen" />
 <Action shortcut="Space;PageDown" name="next" />
 <Action shortcut="Backspace;PageUp" name="previous" />
 <Action shortcut="Ctrl+L;Left" name="rotate_left" />
 <Action shortcut="Ctrl+R;Right" name="rotate_right" />
 <Action shortcut="Ctrl+Plus;Plus" name="view_zoom_in" />
 <Action shortcut="Ctrl+Minus;Minus" name="view_zoom_out" />
 <Action shortcut="X" name="view_zoom_to_fit" />
 <Action shortcut="Z" name="view_actual_size" />
 <Action shortcut="H" name="mirror" />
 </ActionProperties>

And this is the 4.3.0 set up:

<ActionProperties>
 <Action shortcut="Ctrl+Shift+F; F" name="fullscreen" />
 <Action shortcut="H" name="mirror" />
 <Action shortcut="Ctrl+L; L" name="rotate_left" />
 <Action shortcut="Ctrl+R; R" name="rotate_right" />
 <Action shortcut="Z" name="view_actual_size" />
 <Action shortcut="Ctrl++; =" name="view_zoom_in" />
 <Action shortcut="Ctrl+-; -" name="view_zoom_out" />
 <Action shortcut="X" name="view_zoom_to_fit" />
 <Action shortcut="T" name="browse" />
 <Action shortcut="" name="reduce_lod" />
 <Action shortcut="Esc" name="file_quit" />
 <Action shortcut="S" name="file_save_as" />
 </ActionProperties>

A question, do you like me have the KIPI plug ins installed?

[kustodian]

Re: Exit Gwenview with ESC

My version is 2.2.2 from KDE 4.2.2.

Package kipi-plugins was not installed, so I installed it and nothing happened still the same Ambiguous dialog.

[Teunis]

Re: Exit Gwenview with ESC

Maybe you could copy and paste the relevant lines from my file into yours.
Or even replace the whole thing.

[kustodian]

Re: Exit Gwenview with ESC

Copied your configuration file and still the same. I think this is a bug in Gwenview and it got fixed in your version.