Bug 488913

Summary:	KRunner's default Alt+Space shortcut can conflict with app-specific shortcuts
Product:	[Plasma] krunner	Reporter:	rebel_catatonic373
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	alexander.lohnau, matterhorn103, natalie_clarius, nate, peter.fajdiga
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version First Reported In:	6.1.3
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description rebel_catatonic373 2024-06-21 18:18:03 UTC

SUMMARY


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Go to any full screen app
2. Shortcuts will still work
3. May be annoying

OBSERVED RESULT
All shortcuts work, without ability to stop any

EXPECTED RESULT
Ability to be able to stop certain shortcuts from initializing, I use ALT+SPACE frequently but when playing Arma it's quite annoying to accidentally press ALT+SPACE and there's search popping up.

KDE Plasma Version: 6.0.5

I've also looked at 35089 but can't find what the second comment has been referring to.

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2024-06-21 18:51:15 UTC

> 3. May be annoying
Can you elaborate on why this may be annoying? What problems does it cause?

Comment 2 rebel_catatonic373 2024-07-03 22:09:23 UTC

(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #1)
> > 3. May be annoying
> Can you elaborate on why this may be annoying? What problems does it cause?

It interrupts the game I'm playing with a huge search bar in the middle? Same may happen with any app...

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2024-07-22 19:13:15 UTC

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.

Comment 4 matterhorn103 2025-01-15 16:10:09 UTC

What about Meta+F by analogy with the usual Ctrl+F for program-level search? On my two systems at least Meta+F is available.

Comment 5 Nate Graham 2025-02-18 17:57:24 UTC

*** Bug 500268 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***