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Status: New => Opinion
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Status: New => Opinion
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1196164
Title:
Default global hotkeys break application functionality
Status in Unity:
Opinion
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
Opinion
Bug description:
Some applications provide a lot of keyboard shortcuts for the advanced
users. Many times theese shortcuts are already binded by the desktop
environment. The corresponding functionality usually not lost, still
accessible by other, more difficult method (like the menu bar)
Examples:
- In one of the commercial IDEs Alt-F7 would find variable usages. But since
this shortcut is already handled by the WM a window resize starts instead. This
is not what the user might expect, so it's confusing, and makes the desired
function harder to access.
- Alt-clicking on a link in Chrome would save the link's target
immediatey (without "save file as" dialog), but instead Alt-click
initiates window move, this function afaik not accessible otherwise.
I'd suggest re-mapping the desktop environment level global hotkeys so
they would use the Super key as modifier instead of alt, ctrl-alt.
Reasons:
- The "Super" key afaik is not used in any application as modifier, so less
or no application level functionality would be broken.
- Modifying the current layout could be as easy as replacting "Ctrl-Alt-"
with "Super-", since currenty the Super- counterpart of the current shortcuts
are not used for anything. For example instead of locking the screen with
Ctrl-Alt-L, Super-L could lock the screen. Super+drag coul move a window
instead of Alt-drag, etc. This changes would be easy to assume to the users who
might be familiar with the current shortcuts.
- It would make sense to use a different modifier for the functions provided
by the desktop environment. The Super (Windows) key can easily suggest that the
function has something to do with windows, or at least the desktop environment,
and not the applications.
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