Global shortcuts
Friday, January 27th, 2006Amarok’s ‘Global shortcuts’ are the cause of my keyboard woes. Amarok divides its shortcuts into ‘Amarok shortcuts’ and ‘Global shortcuts’, the global variety take over those keys while the program remains running. Of course functions like play, pause, next track, etc. are global, so if I want something simpler than ‘Ctrl-Windows Key-P’, say hitting the space bar, I can’t use it for anything else.
I’m guessing the author’s of this feature had grander plans that what I’m using it for. Maybe a nice feature request for local versions of play. stop, etc. is the way to go…
Update: Looks like I’m not the only one who wants this feature, and thankfully the ticket has already gone through the ‘don’t be so stupid that’s not a bug I’m closing this, oh wait I see your point I’ll open it’ phase. But that was the middle of last year and nothing has happened since. Maybe I should try to add them myself, the patch on this ticket makes it look easy enough.
