diff --git a/vlc-2.2.4-unambig-shortcuts.patch b/vlc-2.2.4-unambig-shortcuts.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ab0070c..0000000
--- a/vlc-2.2.4-unambig-shortcuts.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,44 +0,0 @@
-commit 1e7aca9289f61c8875e91898ba131516d038bb4f
-Author: Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
-Date:   Sun Sep 4 11:00:38 2016 +0200
-
-    Qt: Change mnemonic for 'Play' (&Play => P&lay)
-    
-    ALT-P is bound to 'play' inside the submenu already. Using it duplicated
-    can result in Qt showing popover, warning about "Ambiguous shortcut overload: Alt+P"
-
-diff --git a/modules/gui/qt4/dialogs/open.cpp b/modules/gui/qt4/dialogs/open.cpp
-index d85e976..83712b9 100644
---- a/modules/gui/qt4/dialogs/open.cpp
-+++ b/modules/gui/qt4/dialogs/open.cpp
-@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ OpenDialog::OpenDialog( QWidget *parent,
-     QMenu * openButtonMenu = new QMenu( "Open", playButton );
-     openButtonMenu->addAction( qtr( "&Enqueue" ), this, SLOT( enqueue() ),
-                                     QKeySequence( "Alt+E" ) );
--    openButtonMenu->addAction( qtr( "&Play" ), this, SLOT( play() ),
-+    openButtonMenu->addAction( qtr( "P&lay" ), this, SLOT( play() ),
-                                     QKeySequence( "Alt+P" ) );
-     openButtonMenu->addAction( qtr( "&Stream" ), this, SLOT( stream() ) ,
-                                     QKeySequence( "Alt+S" ) );
-
-commit 02f593441cf536f50071a4a8a088b56f30d53588
-Author: Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar@opensuse.org>
-Date:   Fri Aug 5 09:29:01 2016 +0200
-
-    Qt: Change keyboard shortcut for 'Capture Device'
-    
-    'D' is already used by 'Disc' in the same dialog.
-
-diff --git a/modules/gui/qt4/dialogs/open.cpp b/modules/gui/qt4/dialogs/open.cpp
-index 224cfa5..d85e976 100644
---- a/modules/gui/qt4/dialogs/open.cpp
-+++ b/modules/gui/qt4/dialogs/open.cpp
-@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ OpenDialog::OpenDialog( QWidget *parent,
-     ui.Tab->insertTab( OPEN_NETWORK_TAB, netOpenPanel, QIcon( ":/type/network" ),
-                        qtr( "&Network" ) );
-     ui.Tab->insertTab( OPEN_CAPTURE_TAB, captureOpenPanel,
--                       QIcon( ":/type/capture-card" ), qtr( "Capture &Device" ) );
-+                       QIcon( ":/type/capture-card" ), qtr( "Capture De&vice" ) );
- 
-     /* Hide the Slave input widgets */
-     ui.slaveLabel->hide();
diff --git a/vlc.changes b/vlc.changes
index f7f80fd..80de1c8 100644
--- a/vlc.changes
+++ b/vlc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Mon Sep  5 07:56:44 UTC 2016 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Drop vlc-2.2.4-unambig-shortcuts.patch: it does not solve the
+  problem it attempted to solve to start with. A better solution
+  is to be found with upstream.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Sep  4 09:23:25 UTC 2016 - dimstar@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/vlc.spec b/vlc.spec
index 7716ff2..fbed654 100644
--- a/vlc.spec
+++ b/vlc.spec
@@ -56,8 +56,6 @@ Patch4:         vlc-2.2.0-fix_deinterlace_mmx.patch
 Patch5:         vlc-support-qt5.5.patch
 # PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM vlc-gcc6-buildfixes.patch dimstar@opensuse.org -- A collection of upstream commits to fix build with gcc6
 Patch6:         vlc-gcc6-buildfixes.patch
-# PATCH-FIX-UPSTREAM vlc-2.2.4-unambig-shortcuts.patch dimstar@opensuse.org -- Make keyboard shortcuts on 'open dialog' unambiguous
-Patch8:         vlc-2.2.4-unambig-shortcuts.patch
 BuildRequires:  Mesa-devel
 BuildRequires:  SDL-devel >= 1.2.10
 BuildRequires:  aalib-devel
@@ -336,7 +334,6 @@ date
 if [ $(gcc -dumpversion) -ge 6 ]; then
 %patch6 -p1
 fi
-%patch8 -p1
 
 ### Fix up sources for LUA 5.3
 if pkg-config --atleast-version 5.3 lua; then