A global keyboard shortcut for Application Dashboard would be very useful. In my current layout I have a top panel with Active Window Control widget and system tray. I mostly rely on keyboard shortcut to manipulate windows. AppDash has to be added to panel to be usable. I don't see a lot of use of it if I am not going to use the widget. It would be very useful if AppDash can be triggered like KRunner. I think a lot of folks already use Alt+F1 for AppDash's keyboard shortcut. Reproducible: Always Actual Results: AppDash doesn't work unless added as a widget. Expected Results: Let AppDash be triggered without a widget solely using a keyboard shortcut like Alt+F1.
Another side effect of shipping AppDash without a shortcut is that it is not identified as a primary launcher and hence can't be triggered with meta only key. See this discussion. https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/5hr4iv/meta_key_doesnt_open_main_app_launcher_my_system/db2d81h/
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 356478 ***