On Thursday 08 May 2014 17:18:10 Martin Klapetek wrote: > I'd like to propose to change Krunner's default activation shortcut away > from Alt+F2 and keeping that as a secondary shortcut for legacy purposes in > Plasma Next > > Reasons: > > - F keys are very often mapped to multimedia/utility keys on laptops, > pressing Alt+F2 then requires pressing a three-keys combo, which gets > quite awkward because of the following reason: > - Alt and F2 are just too far away from each other - lowest keyboard row > vs. highest row > - additionally, if you type with the standard typing hand stance > (with your index fingers resting on F and J and your palms resting > below spacebar), you simply cannot reach F2 without raising your palm off > the keyboard, add to that pressing two more keys (fn on laptops) in the > opposite row and it gets quite annoying > - given the above, most of the times you have to look where F2 > actually is because you're changing your hands position into mid > air, or do > some other position detection (as it's not reachable from the standard > typing position) > - small hands have bigger trouble reaching those > > Proposal: > > - Change the shortcut to something that's more closely to each other > like Alt+Space or Ctrl+Space --> same row, no need to raise your palm > off, in case of Ctrl+Space no need to look for F2 because Ctrl is in most > cases the most outward key (except some laptops) and spacebar is where your > thumb is (or should be) > - Keep Alt+F2 as a secondary shortcut
ctrl+space is taken by auto-completion in IDEs. You don't want to break my workflow ;-) Alt+Space is window menu in GNOME. Maybe meta+space. For those remembering: what was it in Katapult? > > > Additional question - have you ever changed krunner's shortcut in your > setup? no Cheers Martin
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