Comment 6 for bug 554713

I already voiced by opinion against a default Super+S shortcut when it was discussed to introduce it in bug #334544 . Unfortunately it seems to made it way into Ubuntu regardless. So I will repeat my comment here, as this is still a very annoying problem:

I agree that a keyboard shortcut for this functionality is good to have, but it will be rarely used throughout the day, so please don't "waste" a handy shortcut like Super+S on this. Make it a two modifier thing. Maybe Ctrl+Alt+S (in line with things like Ctrl+Alt+D to show the desktop) would be a good alternative. From what I can tell it also doesn't conflict with anything on my Lucid Lynx installation. It is also a more universal solution, since there are still a few users with keyboards that don't have a super key.

As the author of Bluetile ( http://www.bluetile.org/ ) I would appreciate this change, since Bluetile's standard keyboard shortcuts already include Super+S and my Ubuntu users repeatedly run into this problem. I am not really willing to change Bluetile's default shortcuts, just because Ubuntu likes to waste such a 'premium' shortcut like Super+S for a task that will be rarely performed.

Other power users (using emacs, awesome wm, amarok or other keyboard-heavy software) seem to agree. So please consider changing this.