Comment 7 for bug 38954

Nicolò:

I don't think the Bastien (the GNOME developer) is wrong. The problem is you have to work in all circumstances all of the time. It might not matter to you that there would be a clash with rhythmbox but I use rhythmbox and totem together a moderate amount so it would affect me.

If you are responding to global hotkeys you can't suddently switch to local hotkeys mode when another app comes along without a lot of messy code (and that only handles that one app. What happens when another one comes along)?