Global shortkeys and keyboard focus

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday 04 July 2014 14:04:03 Dodier-Lazaro, Steve wrote:
> The problem is: what are the allowed global shortcuts leaking about users?
> 
> If it's any key that can be listened to, then we've just gotten ourselves an
> API for implementing keyloggers.

Just because the API and standard allow any key to be requested does not mean 
that the compositor will honour that request. It can have a rule that limits 
which shortcut combinations will be allowed. And obviously it should refuse 
any that conflict with its own shortcuts. But we should have a recommendation 
to applications as to what modifiers are most likely to be accepted, which in 
turn means applications should avoid using those key combinations as non-
global shortcuts in their UXs.

The compositor can also ask the user if it's unsure: "confirm you want this 
application to use this global shortcut".

The compositor should remember which applications requested what, so as to 
avoid conflicts or at least inform the user when that happens.

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