RFC: Change Krunner's default key shortcut for Next

[Martin Klapetek]

I'd like to propose to change Krunner's default activation shortcut away
from Alt+F2 and keeping that as a secondary shortcut for legacy purposes in
Plasma Next

Reasons:

   - F keys are very often mapped to multimedia/utility keys on laptops,
   pressing Alt+F2 then requires pressing a three-keys combo, which gets quite
   awkward because of the following reason:
   - Alt and F2 are just too far away from each other - lowest keyboard row
   vs. highest row
      - additionally, if you type with the standard typing hand stance
      (with your index fingers resting on F and J and your palms resting below
      spacebar), you simply cannot reach F2 without raising your palm off the
      keyboard, add to that pressing two more keys (fn on laptops) in the
      opposite row and it gets quite annoying
      - given the above, most of the times you have to look where F2
      actually is because you're changing your hands position into mid
air, or do
      some other position detection (as it's not reachable from the standard
      typing position)
      - small hands have bigger trouble reaching those

Proposal:

   - Change the shortcut to something that's more closely to each other
   like Alt+Space or Ctrl+Space --> same row, no need to raise your palm off,
   in case of Ctrl+Space no need to look for F2 because Ctrl is in most cases
   the most outward key (except some laptops) and spacebar is where your thumb
   is (or should be)
   - Keep Alt+F2 as a secondary shortcut


Additional question - have you ever changed krunner's shortcut in your
setup?

Cheers
-- 
Martin Klapetek | KDE Developer
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