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

[Noah Davis]

I've created a merge request:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_requests/27

On Sun, May 10, 2020 at 1:06 AM Noah Davis <noahadvs at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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?