SUMMARY Unless Latte Dock is being used, Plasma, by default, is unable to open new instance of an application with a keyboard shortcuts. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Kubuntu 19.04 KDE Plasma Version: 5.16.3 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.60.0 Qt Version: 5.12.2 Kernel Version: 5.0.0-21-generic OS Type: 64-bit Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i5-6500 CPU @ 3.20GHz Memory: 15.6 GiB of RAM GPU: ZOTAC GeForce GTX1060 6GB ADDITIONAL INFORMATION While I'm using Latte Dock on my laptop with Intel iGPU, my gaming desktop has NVIDIA GPU and Latte Dock glitches out after waking up from sleep, hence why I don't use it on my desktop.
see also https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=160923#p420352
it is "Icons-only task manager" , the plasmoid in the standard panel. while it is true that you cannot add any shortcut to Global Shortcuts , it might well serve your purpose to add somthing - namely a .khotkeys scheme - under Custom Shortcuts in the same KCM in systemsettings called "Shortcuts" granted, the whole thing may be a bit confusing. see also https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-work ... otkeys.pdf with good explanations
Created attachment 125026 [details] explains all the confusing verbiage in KDE hotkeys https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/kde-workspace/kcontrol/khotkeys/khotkeys.pdf
seems like a non-bug to me, reporter please confirm whether a custom shortcut fulfills your needs. global shortcuts are not there to do what you want, I presume.
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This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. The bug is now closed as RESOLVED > WORKSFORME due to lack of needed information. For more information about our bug triaging procedures please read the wiki located here: https://community.kde.org/Guidelines_and_HOWTOs/Bug_triaging Thank you for helping us make KDE software even better for everyone!
(In reply to fire f. from comment #4) > seems like a non-bug to me, reporter please confirm whether a custom > shortcut fulfills your needs. > > global shortcuts are not there to do what you want, I presume. No it doesn't, at least, I'm not sure exactly how I can recreate that on Custom Shortcuts.