Global shortcuts trigger_description is always an empty string

[checkraisefold]

The xdg-desktop-portal spec specifies the trigger_description member of a returned shortcut as a human-readable text describing how to trigger the shortcut, i.e. the assigned keybind.

KDE implements this properly, gathering the assigned triggers to an action, combining them with , as a human readable text, and returning them.

Hyprland does not implement this, instead returning an empty string to the client. This does not follow the spec, and would make for a bad time in applications - applications would be displaying this to remind the user in-app of the keybind for something that they set up.
I'm fairly certain fixing this would require extending the hyprland-global-shortcuts-v1 spec, since there's no way to get the bound shortcuts from the config from Hyprland.

[vaxerski]

MRs welcome

[dec05eba]

In relation to this, is there any desire in hyprland to allow assigning a keybind directly with the preferred_trigger option in that BindShortcuts api? right now it's ignored and I assume that is on purpose to only allow keybinding with the hyprland config file? If it is then I could look at implementing both as they are related.

[vaxerski]

no