https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=510724
[email protected] changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |[email protected] --- Comment #3 from [email protected] --- To clarify things, Meta, Super, and Win are different keys. Meta and Super existed on the Space Cadet keyboard. Win exists on PC keyboards. Emacs, X11 and other software supported Meta and Super keys long before there was a Win key on PC keyboard. When PC keyboards first got the Win key, it was common to assign it as Meta, but since there were already other methods of emulating a Meta key (using Alt+key, or ESC then key), then it was decided to assign it as Super. Current xkeyboard-config assigns it as Super in the pc symbols file, which is used by most layouts (excluding layouts for things like Amiga, Atari and Macintosh keyboards). If you run "setxkbmap -print" you are very likely to see "pc" on the xkb_symbols line. The problem is that Qt and KDE use Meta to mean the Win key, while most everyone else (Gnome, i3, sway,...) uses Super for that purpose. XKB itself distinguises between Meta, Super and Win, since it has to map physical keyboard keys to "common denominator" keys. Software above XKB is probably better not knowing whether your keyboard has a Win key, or uses some other key for Super. --- Now, the better solution to this terminology confusion would be to rewrite all references to Meta in KDE software (and in Qt) to Super. The second best solution I can think of is to add some warning text to the Key Bindings UI to warn of the terminology mismatch between XKB and Qt/KDE. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
