RFC: Change Krunner's default key shortcut for Next

[Martin Gräßlin]

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

ctrl+space is taken by auto-completion in IDEs. You don't want to break my 
workflow ;-) Alt+Space is window menu in GNOME. Maybe meta+space. For those 
remembering: what was it in Katapult?

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

no

Cheers
Martin
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