Public bug reported:

The keyboard shortcuts for opening the Unity dash to a specific lens
should be customizable in System Settings>Keyboard>Shortcuts. This is
useful for tweakers or for those who just want to see a list of what
keyboard shortcuts are available (*discoverability*) [1]. Also, as we
get more and more custom lenses, it's nearly unavoidable that multiple
third-party lenses will try to use the same shortcut; the user should be
able to manually fix that if desired.

[1] Yes, there's the keyboard shortcut overlay but there won't be enough
room for all shortcuts to be listed. Also, currently the overlay doesn't
do high contrast so the System Settings view would be better for those
who need high contrast.

What we don't want is people needing to edit system files and have those
changes lost whenever there are updates to that Unity lens.
http://www.iloveubuntu.net/how-easily-add-preferred-keyboard-shortcuts-
unity-lenses

This can be done by adding the appropriate .xml to /usr/share/gnome-
control-center/keybindings/ GNOME Shell puts their extra shortcuts (like
'Show the Message Tray') in the System category. And then the Unity lens
specification would need to be updated so that developers use that
method for keyboard shortcuts instead of the /usr/share/unity/lenses
Shortcut= syntax.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: unity 6.12.0daily12.12.05-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.7.0-5.13-generic 3.7.0-rc8
Uname: Linux 3.7.0-5-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.7-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: No value set for 
`/apps/compiz-1/general/screen0/options/active_plugins'
Date: Tue Dec 11 11:16:32 2012
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

** Affects: unity
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: unity (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug raring

** Also affects: unity
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

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  Keyboard shortcuts for lenses should be customizable in System
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