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And regarding global hotkeys? Something which before would involve going into an application's settings and seeing "Choose hotkey for X", a la Windows, now invo

And regarding global hotkeys? Something which before would involve going into an application's settings and seeing "Choose hotkey for X", a la Windows, now involves going into the compositor's settings, adding a hotkey, knowing what the command line is and how to achieve X via the command line, understanding how launching commands can affect already-running instances of applications, adding a hotkey there... That seems distinctly anti-grandma.

dylan-m 6y ago
I think we should acknowledge many people have grandmas who build desktop operating systems, so this is perhaps a source of misunderstanding :b What kind of global hotkeys are we talking about that casual everyday users need, as opposed to people who build their own desktop OS from parts? We all tried the universal frictionless global hotkeys thing. It was a really bad idea for a general audience [1]. That's why we have MPRIS for global media player controls (Firefox supports it now, which is awesome!), and stuff like the keyboard shortcut inhibit protocol for VMs and the like. It's unfortunate for the building an OS from parts thing, but unlike cars and smartphones, at least it is still all open source. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_logging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keystroke_logging