Application launcher on META key

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 01 August 2014 13:44:55 Eike Hein wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> so we've got this long-standing awkwardness that users generally
> expect the Meta (aka "Win") key to open the application menu,
> which is how it works on Windows and nearly all of the competing
> Linux DEs, but isn't easily configurable in Plasma because we
> don't support modifier-only shortcuts.
> 
> Plenty of distros therefore patch around, or ship a solution
> like ksuperkey which maps a press+release event pair of meta
> to Alt-F1.
> 
> I'm thinking it would be an improvement if we find a proper
> solution we can ship upstream, to avoid downstream reinventing
> the wheel yet again.
> 
> Thoughts? Any good implementation ideas?

As far i know, Martin had plans for it, but iirc only for wayland

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Marco Martin