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hello,

is it possible to set two differnt keys for the same action?

like "p" und " (space)" for play/pause. the reason i want to do this is because i have an IR remote for my pc which sadly has keyboard keys hardcoded to it's buttons.


additionally i would like to control the volume with the left and right arrow keys but without a modifier key like strg, alt or shift they also dont work.


is there a way to solve these to problems?

With 1.0.x series you can have 2 hotkeys for one action (one normal and one Global).

Another hotkey problem that should be solved quite easily:

In the American English version, the hotkey for the menu item "View, Minimal View" is "Ctrl+H".
In the German version, the respective menu item "Ansicht, Minimale Ansicht" is wrongly set to "H".

This creates a collision with the very useful "Subtitle delay up" hotkey (also "H").

I would be grateful if you could correct the German localization in the next version.

Hotkeys should be same on all VLC languages.

Another hotkey problem that should be solved quite easily:

In the American English version, the hotkey for the menu item "View, Minimal View" is "Ctrl+H".
In the German version, the respective menu item "Ansicht, Minimale Ansicht" is wrongly set to "H".

This creates a collision with the very useful "Subtitle delay up" hotkey (also "H").

I would be grateful if you could correct the German localization in the next version.

It's been 4 years now and this problem still has not been fixed.

It's been 4 years and patch is still welcome.

German translator is wrong, that's all...

The en_GB.po contains for example:
and the de.po contains: (German for Ctrl is Strg.)

Is it the msgstr that causes the problem, or the fuzzy comment? Some po files contain "Ctrl+H" as msgstr, others an empty string, others just "Ctrl" ..
There's obviously no consistency whatsoever.

And I'm obviously no VLC dev but I'd like to see this trivial problem fixed. If you know how let me know and I'll try to provide a patch...

Fuzzy means the translation was generated by a computer and will be ignored during compilation.

So what is the problem? How can any translation file cause a change of hotkeys?

The UI framework parses hot keys in a certain way and if the translation does not follows that way, anything goes.

Well there seems to be something wrong with that UI framework then, because this seems fine to me but doesn't work and causes the problem described above:
I guess that's the reason why a lot of other languages do not have translated hotkeys either. In that case the menu shows the English hotkey text ("Ctrl+...") which is not perfect but at least it doesn't mess with the actual hotkey.

It sure is a limitation of the Qt4 framework, but that is not something the VLC developers can fix. The only "solution" for now consists of reverting to the English spelling of key names.

So should I make a patch? If yes, against which version?

I already have a working patch but the powers that be will not let me merge it.

Why not? It seems to be a trivial change.

Will the fix be in 2.0.8 or .9?

Half a year later, the problem is still there in 2.0.8 and even in 2.1.0-pre2.