Change "Show Desktop" keybinding to Super+D

[David Siegel]

Current "Show Desktop" keybinding is Ctrl+Alt+D. Super+D is simpler, is more consistent with other Compiz window management shortcuts (Super+E for expo, Super+W for scale, Super+A for scale all workspaces), and is a familiar keybinding for Windows users (Windows uses Super+D for the same function).

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

We sync this setting from metacity so you either need to get it changed there or we need to deviate.

[Vish (vish)]

David Siegel, do we change it in metacity too?

[David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount)]

Vish, yes it should also be changed in Metacity.

[Travis Watkins (amaranth)]

In that case there is nothing to change in compiz, it pulls this setting from metacity.

[Sense Egbert Hofstede (sense)]

Reported upstream, subsequently marking the Ubuntu task for Metacity as Triaged.

[Raphael Bosshard (raphael.bosshard)]

I'm worried a bit because I don't own a keyboard with a Super key. And I'm not going to throw it away; it's an IBM Model M, I had to kill people for it. ;)

I do agree that it makes sense to have coherent key binding throughout the whole desktop, but for me it would be a regression. Would it be possible map Ctrl+Alt to Super and retain the possibility to use said key binding even if there is no Super key present?

[David Siegel (djsiegel-deactivatedaccount)]

Raphael, yes, you can remap things like this on your personal computer to
your heart's content.

[Koen Verweij (kfverweij)]

I guess nothing happened on upstream for this. This seems to happen a lot. A bug is discussed and then directed to upstream. Subsequently nothing happens, because GNOME bugs seem to get a lot less attention... Sorry, I know complaining doesn't really help much but I just had to say it.

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Thanks andrew for the patch. Could you forward it upstream too?

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething)]

Three months to review a one line patch that was even spec'd at UDS-L. Oh well...

@ Nigel:

You tagged this patch-needswork. Could you please elaborate on what needs work? The currently proposed branch doesn't touch upstream code at all. It patches debian/metacity-common.gconf-defaults. I suppose I could re-write it to patch metacity itself, but upstream hasn't expressed any interest. Things like setting different default keybindings seems completely acceptable to do at the distro level. That's why we even have tools like dh_gconf that make it dead simple to change a default gconf setting in the packaging without patching the upstream source.

[Nigel Babu (nigelbabu)]

Andrew: Sorry about that. I made a mistake in the tagging. If this was spec'd at UDS, could you also link the spec so I can get someone to sponsor this soonish

[Benjamin Drung (bdrung)]

This bug demonstrate clearly the lack of manpower of main sponsors.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package metacity - 1:2.30.1-2ubuntu3

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metacity (1:2.30.1-2ubuntu3) maverick; urgency=low

  * Set show desktop key binding to <Super>+D. (LP: #515682)
 -- Andrew Starr-Bochicchio <email address hidden> Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:34:31 +0200

[Vish (vish)]

Lack of main sponsors and that not everyone knows the every changing patch Sponsoring process :(