Add a shortcut editor

[tsujan]

Self-explanatory but not straightforward because several shortcuts are defined inside the code and should be excluded from the future shortcut editor (I've encountered and handled the same situation elsewhere).

[antis81]

Do you think we should turn globalkeysd -> Core into a shared library? Since the "grabber" works stable we don't need to think about the rest for now. Also the library could provide the "countdown" button from lxqt-globalkeys.

Strings should be friendly to QKeySequence. The only Qt signal provided is Core::shortcutGrabbed(). Adding QString parameter to the signal probably is a good idea (because threaded). However one can read back the grabbed string.

Should be sane don't you think?

[tsujan]

No extra shared library is needed for such jobs.

[antis81]

In no way did I mention the term "extra". Personally I see an API more suitable than message bus for this task. How do you plan to record a shortcut?

[tsujan]

How do you plan to record a shortcut?

No need to a plan; Qt does it. See lximage-qt's code, for example.

[antis81]

Okay 👍

[ralf3u]

The shortcut editor could be inside the Preferences, with the title Shortcuts.
If there will be a shortcut editor, then it would be good to add the following entry:

Mark first item

With that entry I could set the shortcut Home for Mark first item. So, by doing this, I could not only mark the first item with the space-key but also with the Home-key, so the issue #1169 could be solved that way.