Comments on: Bizarro bugs: Ctrl-Q for Select All

By: Andrew Conkling

Andrew Conkling — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:17:48 +0000

Worst. Bug. Ever. So glad it’s been fixed; can’t wait to test it!

By: Philippe

Philippe — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 07:29:28 +0000

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature! (and it sucks)

By: fatal

fatal — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:10:00 +0000

I never managed to figure out what this was and was to lazy to track it down myself. Thanks for blogging this! I’m now subscribed to the bug and hope some progress will be made. Until then I’ll just continue making dvorak my default choice and living with “broken” keyboard shortcuts whenever I (or someone borrowing my computer) need to switch to Swedish (qwerty).

By: Fabien Chaillou

Fabien Chaillou — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:28:00 +0000

Thank you … i didn’t take the time to track this down and it has annoyed me from time to time for a long time !!

By: Taoufix

Taoufix — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:27:14 +0000

Thank you. I had the opposite problem: both Ctrl-A and Ctrl-Q map to Quit. And my applications always quit when trying to make a Select-All :)

By: btmorex

btmorex — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:26:51 +0000

Your bug got marked as a dup of:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162726

In many ways, that other bug report is funny and sad. It’s so typical of gnome development. 90% of it is arguing about which behavior is a better default instead of just giving the user an option.

By: Dieter@be

Dieter@be — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:08:29 +0000

This bug is a classic.
4 years and counting :)

By: Christophe Fergeau

Christophe Fergeau — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:01:47 +0000

Wow, thanks for tracking it down, this has been bugging me for months :)

By: Eemil

Eemil — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:44:26 +0000

Hi,
Thanks a dozen for this! I was wondering why Synaptic quits on ctrl-a for me. It’s pretty annoying not being able to select all packages (The option is not in the menus either). This occurs when Finnish and French keymaps are defined.