Kopete can't insert new line

[Joel Goguen]

In Ubuntu 8.04, pressing Enter in Kopete would send a message, and pressing Ctrl+Enter would add a new line. Now, in Ubuntu 9.04, pressing Enter still sends a message but pressing Ctrl+Enter does nothing.

==== Original question text ====
In 8.04:
ENTER - send message
CTRL+ENTER - add new line

In 9.04:
ENTER - send message
CTRL+ENTER - nothing

[gneman (luis6674)]

Version: 4.2.1 (using KDE 4.2.1)
Compiler: GCC-4.3.3
OS: Linux
Installed from: Unspecified Linux

After upgrading to Qt-4.5, I cannot start a new line in Kopete's message window. It used to work with Ctrl+return, but now it stopped working.

I don't know if it's a Kopete bug or a Qt one, or just some configuration change. If you think I should report it to Qt please let me know.

[Rastos-kdebugs (rastos-kdebugs)]

A new line can be entered in chat window by pressing the Enter key on the numeric keypad. However I would also prefer to have Ctrl+Enter available.

[Matt Rogers (mattr-kde)]

oh, that is annoying.

[Martin-batora (martin-batora)]

hi!
shift + enter works for me

[gneman (luis6674)]

Aha, shift + enter does work here too. So it seems it was a configuration change in QT and not a bug? Go figure why they changed it, but anyway thanks for the tip. Maybe the bug can be closed, but it would be nice to document the change somewhere, no?

[Kde-bugzilla-2 (kde-bugzilla-2)]

Keep the bug open. If necessary, add an explicit "Insert newline" entry in the shortcuts dialog which I can set to Ctrl+Enter, but I don't consider Shift+Enter to be a solution worthy of RESO.

If I was OK with all my apps having unconfigurable, potentially mutually-incompatible keybindings, I'd use GNOME as my desktop, emacs as my code editor, Firefox as my main browser, and I'd give up on ever enjoying the efficiency that muscle memory can bring.

[Joel Goguen (jgoguen)]

Thank you for taking the time to help make Ubuntu better. I've converted your question to a bug report, since what you describe is a bug in software provided with Ubuntu. As a workaround, please try pressing Shift+Enter and let us know if that inserts a new line for you.

I have found an upstream bug report that describes this issue, as well as presents the workaround, so I will set this bug as Triaged and let the developers handle it from here.

Thanks again for taking the time to help make Ubuntu better!

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Kopete lives in kdenetwork since Gutsy.

[Alexey Androsov (doochik)]

shift+enter adds new line, but it's strange! I use kopete for several years and always use ctrl+enter.

[xwild (wildadmin)]

I', also always use ctrl+enter..
I think it's necessary to add the shortcut to add new line.

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

Closing in favor of the report at bugs.kde.org please follow for updates on this issue there.

Thanks!

[Justin Zobel (justin-zobel)]

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.

[gneman (luis6674)]

After 12 years I guess it can certainly be closed.