Application launcher on META key

Martin Klapetek martin.klapetek at gmail.com
Fri Aug 1 12:15:09 UTC 2014


On Fri, Aug 1, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Eike Hein <hein at kde.org> 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.
>

Do you know about the patches? Are they any good/worth adopting and
maintaining upstream?

Cheers
-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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