Global hotkeys of amarok for rating conflict with Unity (Meta-1 to Meta-5)

[Daniel Hahler]

Amarok uses Meta-1 to Meta-5 as global hotkeys to assign 1-5 stars to the currently playing track.

This conflicts with Unity, which uses these hotkeys to start/switch to the first five entries from the application launcher.

I have now assigned custom hotkeys for Amarok: Ctrl-Alt-Meta-1 to Ctrl-Alt-Meta-5.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: amarok 2:2.5.0-0ubuntu5
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-17.26-generic-pae 3.2.6
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-17-generic-pae i686
ApportVersion: 1.93-0ubuntu2
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Feb 24 20:10:06 2012
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
SourcePackage: amarok
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2011-12-16 (70 days ago)

[Myriam Schweingruber (myriam)]

Why should an application existing since 10 years change its hotkeys just because Unity wants them? Sorry, I fail to see how this is an Amarok bug.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I also don't see Unity changing its key combination its literally based around the 'Super' key.

[Scott Kitterman (kitterman)]

It's quite unfortunate that the Unity designers didn't consider the way these keys have been used for a variety of applications for a long period of time. Unity ought to provide some mechanism to not break other things.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

What every happened back then but changing the super key binding now is a total deal breaker for quite a large number of Ubuntu users who are now used to a major change in Ubuntu.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I'll close that as opinion as I am afraid that won't change in Unity :/