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Default settings for the Xubuntu desktop

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Unassigning Super + F #19

Closed philipzae closed 2 years ago

philipzae commented 3 years ago

As proposed in the UI & UX Tweaks Google Doc, Super + F is to be unassigned as Super + E was being assigned, as presently there are 4 shortcuts to open the file manager.

bluesabre commented 3 years ago

Is there any other reason? Two of those shortcut are hardware keys. Super+E is the Windows "Explorer" shortcut. Super+F seems to make sense as the "Files" shortcut, unless we want to use it for something else.

philipzae commented 3 years ago

Seem to be confused as Ctrl + Alt + F isn't a hardware key and was one we added so that we could remove Super + F. https://github.com/Xubuntu/xubuntu-default-settings/commit/63a4f38c8a416e40be8da5ec1b247f35aa52644c

bluesabre commented 3 years ago

Sorry for the delayed response. If I recall (it's been a long time now), we had added Ctrl+Alt variants of each Super key shortcut for keyboards that were lacking that key. Can you verify if you see that pattern, both within our keyboard shortcuts and in other desktops? If so, we can confirm with the rest of @Xubuntu/xubuntu-team whether we need to keep the variants.

philipzae commented 3 years ago

I see Ctrl+Alt variants of Super key shortcuts only for L (xflock4), T (terminal), and F (thunar), but none for Super plus R, P, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc.

bluesabre commented 3 years ago

I removed the Super+1,2,3,4 shortcuts.

I've also confirmed that there is not a 1:1 for Super vs Ctrl+Alt shortcuts.

The Super+Letter shortcuts we have now are:

D: Show Desktop
E: (Windows compatibility) Explorer
F: File Manager
L: Lock Screen
M: Mail Reader
P: (Windows compatibility) Project Menu / Presentation Mode (this seems to have changed over the years)
R: (Windows compatibilty) Run Dialog
T: Terminal Emulator
W: Web Browser

F, M, T, and W are for the respective exo/xfce-open launchers. I think we should get @Xubuntu/xubuntu-team in on the Super+F shortcut removal before moving forward. I don't think it's critically important, but it does break our own convention.

Elsewhere, it appears Super+F is used as:

Feedback Hub in Windows 10/11
File Manager in previous versions of Ubuntu and (maybe current) Pop!_OS

bluesabre commented 2 years ago

It looks like plenty of folks within the team depend on this keyboard shortcut, so closing this PR out.