A standard for global/desktop environment shortcuts to prevent conflicts with Linux apps

Noah Davis noahadvs at gmail.com
Wed May 6 19:41:16 UTC 2020


Hello, KDE is currently trying to standardize on reserving the
Meta/Super/Start/Command key for global/desktop environment shortcuts.
It seems to me that it would be in the interest of every desktop
environment to standardize on this in order to prevent global/shell
shortcuts from conflicting with Linux apps. For instance, Alt + Left
Click is an old shortcut for dragging windows around that is still
used by KWin, but it conflicts with Blender, GIMP, Inkscape and Krita.
Many creative workflow apps need modifier+mouse button shortcuts to be
fast and easy to use and apps generally avoid using Meta/Super
already.

Any thoughts?


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