Some ramblings over global shortcuts.

I have some problems with the current state of global shortcuts. So i tried to write up what >I< think is correct behavior. Some kind of vision i would say.

The things that annoy me currently

1. I don't care for applications registering global shortcuts without telling me and without giving me the oppurtunity to disable them. I start a application i don't know, accidently press some button combination and something happens. Don't like it. No global shortcuts without my consent. Basta. A application is allowed to advertise actions it thinks are appropriate for global shortcuts, and give default values, but after starting the application the first time they arent active. It's opt-in.

2. I don't care for kde shortcut dialogs dictating that having two applications listening to the same global shortcut is a conflict and not acceptable. When i want to configure a conflicting shortcut let me do it. A warning would be ok. Especially when shortcuts are opt in (1). I can imagine use cases were pressing one shortcut should trigger two or three actions and i would want that. And i don't think pointing to khotkeys is the right thing to do in that case.

3. When running a application i do not care for kde telling me there exists a conflict between global shortcuts when the other application isn't running. Warn me when two applications listen to the same shortcuts at the same time. Perhaps give me the option to suppress that warning for selected shortcuts.

4. I don't like having all shortcuts together in kglobalshortcutsrc. Call it personal preference. I think the belong into the kxmlgui.rc file of the application.

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