keyboard shortcut

[Roman Shtylman]

So after some quick searching I have turned up a few things:

1. A really cool page on wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts

This shows the difference in run command bindings and generally everything else 
between the major environments.

2. This bug (https://bugs.launchpad.net/katapult/+bug/6133) led me to discover 
that kmail does indeed current use Alt+Space for the "select message with 
focus" behavior

I think one of the bigger questions here might be how you want people to use 
and also discover use of krunner. Is it clear to a new user that 
Alt+<whatever> gives them this really powerful tool at their fingertips. I find 
that unless it is super easy for me to launch it (thus the alt+space) I am 
less inclined to use it. Others obviously might have other preferences... this 
may be something we can usability test out? As well as figure out how to better 
educate people about krunner. ... I know you can click the "?" but browsing 
that list is a bit "off" ... there has to be a better way to present the help 
or discover what the runner can do. Even I learn new things it can do all the 
time.

~Roman

On Saturday 06 March 2010 10:11:26 pm Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On March 6, 2010, Roman Shtylman wrote:
> > I don't know if this is the best place to bring it up...but I will
> > since krunner is related to plasma (more or less).
> 
> this is the correct list for krunner discussion :)
> 
> > Has any thought been given to changing the default shortcut to
> > alt+space? I think this was the old old katapult? shortcut... iirc
> 
> we can't get rid of alt+f2 because of people being used to it. the
> remaining issue it making sure other things don't conflict with alt+space.
> e.g. multibyte input is often keyed to <something>+space and i always
> forget what it is (meta? ctrl?). if we can clear alt+space as "free to
> use" then we can bind both alt+f2 and alt+space to krunner. it's a
> one-liner patch.
> 
> can you do the necessary research to ensure there isn't any usage out there
> of alt+space (besides launchers)?