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Idea #18964: Hotkey Collisions Lead to Unpredictable Behavior

Written by brownbat the 1 Apr 09 at 09:43. Category: Usability. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
Rationale
Changing keyboard shortcuts involves either a lot of expended effort trying to find unused key combinations, or involves risking collisions and unpredictable behavior.

I have seen more than one post on UbuntuForums complaining about Hotkey or Keyboard Shortcut Collisions.
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Solution #1: Create a Universal Hotkey Registry App
Written by brownbat the 1 Apr 09 at 09:43.
Maybe a program could consolidate all your hotkeys from across all your programs, so you could quickly cross reference which hotkeys were used or unused.

If this info were machine readable, it might even inspire third parties to write useful warning scripts to help you manage your shortcuts.

The difficulty might be in gathering the shortcut info from such a huge variety of apps...
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Solution #2: Use KDE
Written by phxx the 14 Apr 09 at 20:40.
KDE already has this ability. Ofcourse using KDE is not possible/prefered by GNOME users, but maybe the GNOME Developers can take some ideas from the KDE hotkey system.

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Psycho_zs wrote on the 5 Apr 09 at 06:27
Universal, DE-independent, with own lightweight hotkey daemon and config interface. With ability for DEs to apply their hotkey "themes" to it.
Push it as standard.

Penguin Guy wrote on the 26 Apr 09 at 11:36
I thought this already existed. I have been warned multiple times about hotkey collisions.


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