Keyboard shortcuts - Update some window management shortcuts to use "Ctrl + Super" instead of just "Super" (Part 2)
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ayatana Design |
Fix Committed
|
High
|
John Lea | ||
| Unity |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Marco Trevisan (Treviño) | ||
| unity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Change the following window management shortcuts
from:
Ctrl + Alt + D Minimises all windows
Super + Cursor down Restores focused window, if window is currently maximised
to:
Ctrl + Super + D Minimises all windows
Ctrl + Super + Cursor down Restores (if currently maximised) or minimises (if currently restored) focused window
Rational:
SUPER triggers the launcher, and the actions listed above do not require launcher interactions. As a result, using SUPER on it's own for these interactions has resulted in false positives where the launcher is revealed even though it provides no benefit for these interactions. Adding CTRL to the beginning of these shortcuts solves this problem, and also makes the shortcuts more congruous with the 'Ctrl + Alt + Cursor Keys' workspace shortcuts.
For a full list of the unity shortcuts see https:/
| Changed in ayatana-design: | |
| assignee: | nobody → John Lea (johnlea) |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in unity: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in unity: | |
| milestone: | none → backlog |
| Changed in ayatana-design: | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
| tags: | added: keybinding udp |
| Yann Dìnendal (yannbreliere) wrote | #1 |
| Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in unity: | |
| milestone: | backlog → none |
| Changed in unity: | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| Changed in unity: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
| Changed in unity (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Released |
About the "show desktop" shortcut, which is one of the most well known shortcuts, I think it would be better to keep the existing "Ctrl + Alt + D".
If the rational is that "Ctrl + Shift" is used to interact on a window while "Ctrl + Alt" lets interacting with workspaces, I would argue that while "Ctrl + Shift" interacts with the current window, this is not what "Show desktop" does.
It hides all the windows. Seen another way, it lets us view the workspace behind the current windows.
So I don't think that "Ctrl + Alt + D" to show the desktop would contradict the new "Ctrl + Shift" vs "Ctrl + Alt" distinction.