global shortcut resolution (the KGlobalAccel methods) work on
application level, X11 as far as I can tell does not have a method to
tell which application has grabbed a key (to fill KGlobalShortcutInfo).
other than that no configuration interface for global shortcuts (not by
KGlobalAccel itself, plasma and its applets have interface for that),
also the shortcuts interface did not and still does not handle global
shortcuts well so that is something to look into.
one of the problems solved with this change is the fact that multiple
plasma applets (e.g. multiple instances of the keyboard applet) could
not use the same shortcut, now it is possible. as for which applet gets
the shortcut action it is the one that has the grab first - that is how
key grabbing works in X11
Signed-off-by: Ivailo Monev <xakepa10@gmail.com>
