SUMMARY I would like to be able to rebind the keys for navigating through the global menu. In particular I want to use vi-style keys instead of arrow keys for easier accessibility. The widget already allows users to set up a global keyboard shortcut to activate the menu, so one could add the remaining keyboard mappings there as well. If this is not particularly hard to do I would like to give it a shot myself. I do know C++ and I should be able to pick up on QML if someone can point me towards where I need start digging in the widget code. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: Void Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.81.0 Qt Version: 5.15.18_1
This kind of opens up a bit of a can of worms. Why just the global menu? That would be weird and inconsistent. We would want it in KRunner and Kickoff too. And QStyle-based menus as well. And list views. So in short, this ideally should be a "global vi mode navigation support" thing, and not a "support vi mode navigation in the global menu applet" thing. But if you do that, you'll start bumping into existing behaviors where the letter keys do different things. I question whether it is possible to do this in a clean way...
> Why just the global menu? Unline KRunner and Kickoff the global menu does not take text input. Plasmoids which take text input would need to be made modal, and there is no need for a vi-mode in those anyway since I can just type out what I want. > So in short, this ideally should be a "global vi mode navigation support" thing That would indeed be a massive can of worms. I don't think that making an entire desktop environment vi-like would be a good idea either.
>I want to use vi-style keys instead of arrow keys for easier accessibility. System settings -> shortcuts -> navigation -> previous item in list. This should be followed everywhere, but I can well believe it's not. Please reopen if it is not.
(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #3) > System settings -> shortcuts -> navigation -> previous item in list. This does nothing for the global menu and it requires a modifier key like Ctrl, a letter key alone cannot be used.
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