Comment 3 for bug 161960

Here is a good reason to make it so: Discoverability!

People often come to Ubuntu and wonder "where the Start menu is". If they could press the Super key ("Start") and have something appear, that would mean they quickly learn what Ubuntu has instead. People must think outside of the anti-Windows thing here. The Start key may have been inspired by Microsoft's main menu, but that does not mean it should be ignored. It does not say "Windows' Start Menu"; it says "Start". "Start" can mean whatever we make it to mean, and it can most definitely apply here. I think that it makes sense for that key to mean and do what it tends to say these days, which is to start the user off. No, the menu does not have to say Start for that to make sense. I, for one, would prefer if the menu did not since having two Starts would be redundant.

The Super key could be effectively mapped to either GNOME's main menu applet, or to Deskbar. Both of those applets are present by default and offer a great way of starting off one's journey into Ubuntu.

Either one could be achieved via a fairly straight-forward patch that changes default settings for the respective application. I'll see what I can do myself, although I must admit to having never looked at either application (and I am a bit lost as to what project is ultimately in charge of GNOME's hotkeys).