peterfajdiga / peterfajdiga/karousel

[Better Choice of Keybingdings and Preventing Confusion When Switching Left/Right at Start/End Window ]

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
I'm always frustrated with keybindings like Meta+Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F1, Meta+Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F4 and any keybinding that contains Shift+number or letter (like: Meta+Shift+W). When keybindings demand more than 4 keys they become tedious. Also, an unnecessary feature that I find confusing more than useful is when I switch to left window when I am at the start window it returns to the second window instead of not doing anything, this causes confusion.

Describe the solution you'd like

  • Karousel is really what KDE misses to be the best desktop environment ever. I would want karousel's keybindings be the same as PaperWM. PaperWM's keybindings are very simple, intiuitive and easy to grasp.
    Here you can see how simple and intiuitve are PaperWM's keybindings:
    https://github.com/paperwm/PaperWM

You can edit these keybindings to be:
Switch to the right window
Meta+Right Arrow

Switch to the left window
Meta+Left Arrow

Switch to the start window
Meta+Home

Switch to the end window
Meta+End

Move column to the right
Ctrl+Meta+Right Arrow

Move column to the left
Ctrl+Meta+Left Arrow

Move column to the start
Ctrl+Meta+Home

Move column to the end
Ctrl+Meta+End

  • Also, PaperWM when enabled in GNOME automatically overrides GNOME's shortcuts. If karousel were the same, that would be perfect.

  • I strongly recommend you change every keybinding that contains Shift+number or letter (like: Meta+Shift+W, Meta+Shift+A, Meta+Shift+D, Meta+Shift+1, Meta+Shift+3, Meta+Ctrl+Shift+1), because they don't work without a hassle.

  • Also, I strongly recommend you change these two keybindings: Meta+Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F1, Meta+Ctrl+Alt+Shift+F4 because they open tty.

  • I strongly recommend you prevent confusion by making – scrolling left when on start window or right when on end – not do anything instead of returning to the second or second to last.

Additional context
I hope implementing these features would be easy for you. Wishing you all the best. Thank you so much for your awesome work. I really appreciate the great work you've done.

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Research direction

The issue names no files or tests. Locate Karousel's keybinding definitions and the left/right window-switching entry points, then compare the current shortcuts with the requested PaperWM-style bindings. Done means the requested shortcuts are changed without the listed TTY conflicts, and moving past either end leaves the selection unchanged.

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Assessment

Tech stack
typescript
Domain
desktop
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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