Application launcher on META key

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 01 August 2014 14:29:38 Eike Hein wrote:
> On 08/01/2014 02:15 PM, Martin Klapetek wrote:
> > Do you know about the patches? Are they any good/worth adopting and
> > maintaining upstream?
> 
> Sorry, nope, don't have any on-hand. I vaguely remember that
> openSUSE had a patch in the early 4.x days, but e.g. Netrunner
> just shipped ksuperkey which is an external app that works as
> mentioned (hijack press+release of meta and send a fake Alt-
> F1).
> 
> For a proper solution the challenges are:
> - We may have more than one launcher instance
> - Our shortcuts system doesn't like modifier-only key sequences
> - How to expose things in the UI
> 
> Plasma already tries to handle some of this, e.g. activatable
> widgets show up in Global Keyboard Shortcuts and launchers
> default to Alt+F1, but I have no idea if it's trying to handle
> the multi-instance problem in some way.

maybe, ksuperkey, or something that uses the same approach would be just fine 
for X11, leaving the proper solution, in the shell/compositor protocol for 
wayland as a separate one (implementations will have to be completely 
different anyways)

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Marco Martin