RFC: Change Krunner's default key shortcut for Next

[Jens Reuterberg]

+1 on the idea EXCEPT we have to think how much we want to promote 
Krunner? Lets face it currently Krunner is something of a "poweruser" thing 
(which is odd but thats the way its communicated for the moment) with 
extensions to it something odd and weird.

I have "Meta+Space" personally but thats just me - and I've just started using 
it more extensively (and still don't get how to add more runners than the ones 
already present)

So if this is aimed at people who already know how to edit the keyboard and 
with INTENT hidden away from casual users a simple commonly done 
keyboard shortcut may not be the way to go.
On the other hand if its NOT ment to be hidden away I suggest doing it but 
also promote the hell out of it. Its an awesome thing and a feature most new 
users have to find themselves.

On Thursday 08 May 2014 17.18.10 Martin Klapetek wrote:
> 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