Add Meta+Space as a default shortcut to activate KRunner
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Authored by ngraham on Sep 17 2019, 7:17 PM.

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There are two proposed justifications for this addition:

  • In general, VDG would like to move towards consistently using the Meta key for global shortcuts
  • Switching macOS users will be able to activate KRunner with the exact same keyboard shortcut they used to activate Spotlight

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ngraham created this revision.Sep 17 2019, 7:17 PM
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+1, but I'm curious what others have to say. I definitely agree that Meta should be for global shortcuts and global desktop shell related shortcuts in particular.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Sep 17 2019, 7:26 PM
romangg added a subscriber: romangg.EditedSep 17 2019, 7:39 PM

I agree with Meta instead of Alt for all "system shortcuts". Hence I would like to see this as well for all window manager operations. Meta => system, Ctrl, Alt => applications.

EDIT: Alt+Tab for window switcher is the exception.

GB_2 added a subscriber: GB_2.Sep 17 2019, 7:43 PM

I agree with Meta instead of Alt for all "system shortcuts". Hence I would like to see this as well for all window manager operations. Meta => system, Ctrl, Alt => applications.

EDIT: Alt+Tab for window switcher is the exception.

Relevant: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399375

GB_2 accepted this revision as: GB_2.Sep 17 2019, 7:43 PM

I agree with Meta instead of Alt for all "system shortcuts". Hence I would like to see this as well for all window manager operations. Meta => system, Ctrl, Alt => applications.

EDIT: Alt+Tab for window switcher is the exception.

Yeah, that's pretty much how I feel about it too.

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Meta+Space used for chang Keyboard Layout.

By ibus, yeah. :/ I found that out last week. I'm probably going to end up reverting this.

alam added a subscriber: alam.Jan 9 2020, 7:01 PM

Hi @ngraham

Have you got chance to revert it?

As KDE multilingual user, I still not able to use ibus keyboard in KDE from last month even tried to reset keyboard shortcut.

Help will be really appreciated.

Yes, I reverted it in 469a7c1e33f83d6b73610997811fb131b5af80ca, which was released with Plasma 5.17.5.