In Konsole, paste keyboard shortcut is no shift-insert

[Scott Kitterman]

Binary package hint: kdebase

In KDE4/Intrepid, Konsole no longer uses shift-insert as the keyboard shortcut for pasting text in the konsole. Instead it's ctrl-shift-v. For all Linux terminal apps I've ever used, shift-insert was standard. ctrl-shift-v is substantially more complex and is not used by anything else. It's also far to close to the more standard ctrl-v. Usability disaster.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

I disagree with Wishlist. This is a regression from Hardy.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Maybe it's KDE's fault, but xterm does nothing, neither does eterm.
Anyway, gnome-terminal AND xfce4-terminal use ctrl-shift-v as well as konsole, so in terms of freedesktop integration there is no whatsoever reason to change the shortcut to shift-insert on a Kubuntu system.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

It was shift insert in KDE3 since forever. Random key combination changes
between KDE 3 and KDE4 don't strike me as a good idea.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

Shift insert works in 4.1.2. The right-click dialogue still shows ctrl-shift-v, but shift-insert works too.