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

[Noah Davis]

To get more specific:
I think this should be a pretty small and simple standard.
Applications should completely avoid using Meta/Super.
DEs/WMs shouldn't be required to use Meta/Super for everything,
but they should try to use Meta/Super,
especially if they have shortcuts that conflict with Linux apps.
This way Alt+Tab can continue being used since apps avoid it.

On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 3:41 PM Noah Davis <noahadvs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?