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Suggestion QoL: Hotkey naming.

Open hiringManager opened this issue 4 years ago • 1 comments

I've run into the issue of not understanding the keybinds' naming, because of the ambiguity with:

Move U/D/L/R Up/Prev Down/Next Increase/Decrease etc.

Coupled with the issue of initially installing this from the KDE store, I was unable to understand why the hotkeys were not changing the window focus as described, as I had never used dwm. I honestly still don't understand how the dwm hotkeys function, as they don't seem to work in quarter layout, but work in column layout.

I believe that using these terms would be better for the global shortcuts:

Focus Left Focus Right Focus Up / DWM function Focus Down / DWM function

It may also be a good idea to rename keybinds just for the sake of grouping them together.

Krohnkite: Layout - Next Krohnkite: Layout - Previous Krohnkite: Layout - Monocle Krohnkite: Layout - Floating Krohnkite: Resize - Left Krohnkite: Resize - Grow etc for each type of bind.

Thanks!

hiringManager avatar May 10 '20 17:05 hiringManager

I agree. There has been lots of afterthoughts, which causes some consistency issues w/ the terminology.

However, the thing is that KDE identifies shortcuts by name, and everyone must rebind shortcuts whenever the name changes. Maybe I can provide a migration tool, but it still require manual intervention from users.

So, this should be done only when a major version up is made, which I think would happen within several months.

esjeon avatar May 11 '20 01:05 esjeon