[krunner] [Bug 488913] KRunner's default Alt+Space shortcut can conflict with app-specific shortcuts

[Nate Graham]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488913

Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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            Summary|Feature Request: Ability to |KRunner's default Alt+Space
                   |stop (possibly certain)     |shortcut can conflict with
                   |shortcuts from initiating   |app-specific shortcuts
                   |when Fullscreen app is      |
                   |active                      |
           Severity|wishlist                    |normal
           Assignee|unassigned-bugs at kde.org     |plasma-bugs at kde.org
                 CC|                            |alexander.lohnau at gmx.de,
                   |                            |natalie_clarius at yahoo.de
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1
            Product|kde                         |krunner
            Version|unspecified                 |6.1.3
           Keywords|                            |usability
             Status|REPORTED                    |CONFIRMED
          Component|general                     |general

--- Comment #3 from Nate Graham <nate at kde.org> ---
Games sound like a legitimate use case, yeah. However, we'd need to distinguish
between games and other things. Because I absolutely *do* want KRunner to
appear when I press Alt+Space while in full screen Gwenview, Firefox, Kate,
etc. But while in a full-screen game, I can see how it becomes problematic. But
then again, you probably do want to be able to Alt+Tab out of a game, and
that's also a global shortcut! Same with changing the volume or brightness.
Even detecting "I'm a game" is hard enough; coming up with a set of allowed
global shortcuts on top of this seems infeasible.

Maybe the issue here is more that KRunner's default shortcut uses the Alt key
rather than the Meta key, and apps not unreasonably expect to have Alt
shortcuts to themselves. IIRC we did try to change KRunner's default shortcut
to Meta+Space a while back, but had to abandon the effort because it conflicted
with IBus, which uses Meta+Space itself by default.

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