domferr / domferr/tilingshell

Gnome's own window management keyboard shortcuts keeps getting disabled by this extension

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**Describe the bug**
On every activation of this extension the default window management gnome keyboard shortcuts for "Maximize window", "Restore window" and "View split Left/Right" are automatically disabled.

This seems undesirable as you lose some basic gnome functionality, specially "Maximize window" and "Restore window" functionality. I do realize that the likely reason for this being done is because those shortcuts conflict with the extensions own shortcuts for moving tiled windows with SUPER + Arrowkeys.

Also, even when the user unsets those conflicting shortcut bindings in the extension and restore the bindings in gnome, every time the extension is initialized the gnome shortcuts are disabled again:

This shows the window tiling movement shortcuts being unset in the extenson
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Gnome's own window management shortcuts are re-set to their defaults
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But after restarting gnome or the extension, those window management keyboard shortcuts in gnome are now unset:
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I'm not sure what the ideal solution is but I propose that at least when no conflicting shortcuts exists with the gnome shortcuts, that they don't get disabled.

**Information (please complete the following):**
- Tiling Shell 17.3
- GNOME 49

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