| Summary: | The Super (Windows) key should launch Kickoff, like most other DEs | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | skierpage <info> |
| Component: | Application Launcher (Kickoff) widget | Assignee: | David Edmundson <kde> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | kde, plasma-bugs, rdieter |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 5.6.4 | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Kubuntu | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | 5.8 | |
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
> I just want it to work like other desktop environments. See https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=84602 See also bug 111620 and bug 154564. We're aware of this issue and in Wayland this will be possible but not before that. In the meantime, use eg. ksuperkey, thanks. Users have been complaining about this since 2009. That's 7 years ago. SEVEN YEARS. I'm sorry, but where were you guys thinking? Do you have a product manager who can set priorities based on user input? This is a free software project, whose contributors are primarily volunteers. Questioning motives or any perceived lack of priorities is not constructive. Please have a look at https://www.kde.org/code-of-conduct/ and reflect what you wrote. This works in plasma 5.8 |
I'm running KDE Frameworks 5.22.0 & QT 5.5.1 from the KDE backport PPA on Kubuntu 16.04. Switching to KDE after using Gnome, Unity, or Windows is pretty jarring because the Super (Windows) key does nothing. In all those modern DEs, it opens the application list/launcher. In KDE to start the Application Launcher (Kickoff) I have to learn to press Alt+F1. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Press Super key Actual Results: Nothing happens Expected Results: The Super (Windows) key should open the application launcher as Alt+F1 does. The Super key seems generally unused in KDE. I tried the workaround of configuring this, Right-click > Application Launcher Settings... > Keyboard shortcuts, but pressing Super just shows Meta+..., awaiting another key. I don't want to press a key combination, again I just want it to work like other desktop environments. Maybe it could be a separate checkbox: [ ] Pressing Super (Windows) key activates Application Launcher. Thanks for all you do.