https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=399375
--- Comment #27 from David REVOY <i...@davidrevoy.com> --- @Martin: The awesomeness of the feature (I don't doubt about it) or the Reddit mini featuring of the Alt key with 85 upvotes are not really valid arguments; especially when three comments in the same Reddit say they need to change this shortcut to Meta and the thread is followed only by the Plasma audience (r/kde...). I'm interested by the users who never adopted Plasma or who left it after a first try. They probably don't subscribe to this Reddit. By the way, an interesting feedback on it is from a gamer; saying Alt is required by games. Maybe the low presence of gamers and artists on GNU/Linux is also a consequences of default like that? Imagine if the operating system was designed by artists, and they would replace all the [ and ] keys by action to change brush-size system wide. "How awesome! painting on every windows and being able to change brush size!"... Of course, you could change it in the settings (assuming you are looking to change a keyboard shortcut in the less logical place for it; Windows Management>Windows behavior>Windows Actions(tabs). This ensure you need a guide and a documentation to be able to even know you can customize it). I'm sure such a default behavior would just ruins the adoption for the developers audience because devs need this keys to write code and would think this is not well thought or suited for their use. This is -of course- a humoristic reversed caricature I use to illustrate this situation with the Alt key. And again, patching Krita, or doing a specific tablet+Alt action doesn't solve the issue. It even adds less consistency and more workaround to the D.E. Alt+Mouse-click getting another behavior than Alt+Tablet-stylus-tip-click?... Well, I work with both. I don't expect they work differently and if a D.E. force me to that I would probably consider it broken and not consistent. Assuming artist use only the tablets is like imagining gamers control their PC with only joypads ;-P All in all, maybe the best way to smooth the rough edges of this Alt issue without changing the default (because I see it will be impossible) is push efforts on a cleaner and more user-friendly "System Settings" on Plasma. I would expect to setup something as important as that option on first page of the "Shortcuts" settings... But when I open it, the first thing proposed is "Standards Shortcuts" and the possibility to add shortcut for popping the windows "About Application" and "About KDE" on the top... Not really relevant xD. You can browse all the content of Shortcuts... It's long. Not finding it and then you need to search online for specific documentation to find Windows Management>Windows behavior>Windows Actions(tabs). Maybe a topic for opening another issue? What do you think about it? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
