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[Andrea Azzarone <azzaronea@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: unity
       Status: New => Opinion

** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Opinion

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1196164

Title:
  Default global hotkeys break application functionality

Status in Unity:
  Opinion
Status in unity package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  Some applications provide a lot of keyboard shortcuts for the advanced
  users. Many times theese shortcuts are already binded by the desktop
  environment. The corresponding functionality usually not lost, still
  accessible by other, more difficult method (like the menu bar)

  Examples: 
  - In one of the commercial IDEs Alt-F7 would find variable usages. But since this shortcut is already handled by the WM a window resize starts instead. This is not what the user might expect, so it's confusing, and makes the desired function harder to access.

  - Alt-clicking on a link in Chrome would save the link's target
  immediatey (without "save file as" dialog), but instead Alt-click
  initiates window move, this function afaik not accessible otherwise.

  I'd suggest re-mapping the desktop environment level global hotkeys so
  they would use the Super key as modifier instead of alt, ctrl-alt.

  Reasons:
  - The "Super" key afaik is not used in any application as modifier, so less or no application level functionality would be broken.
  - Modifying the current layout could be as easy as replacting  "Ctrl-Alt-" with "Super-", since currenty the Super- counterpart of the current shortcuts are not used for anything.  For example instead of locking the screen with Ctrl-Alt-L, Super-L could lock the screen. Super+drag coul move a window instead of Alt-drag, etc. This changes would be easy to assume to the users who might be familiar with the current shortcuts.
  - It would make sense to use a different modifier for the functions provided by the desktop environment. The Super (Windows) key can easily suggest that the function has something to do with windows, or at least the desktop environment, and not the applications.

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