Ctrl+` is a horrible key for keyboard shortcut and does not work on mine

[HarHarLinks]

Steps to reproduce

Use QWERTZ keyboard with DE layout.
See Ctrl+` is listed as shortcut for "Toggle the top left menu" and try it.

Outcome

What did you expect?

Toggle the top left menu

What happened instead?

Nothing(?), but Ctrl+Shift+´ instead increased the font size (as you would Ctrl++ to do), see below.

However I want to argue that ` is a horrible choice for a keyboard shortcut.

• it is a "dead key". might protentially lead to problems, not sure how these work outside of typing the character.
• it is on the "Shift" layer of at least my layout. shortcuts should use base layer keys or be described using them, e.g. Ctrl+` would be Ctrl+Shift+´ properly.
• who knows where (if at all?) the key is present on international layouts.

Operating system

arch

Application version

Element Nightly version: 2021110701 Olm version: 3.2.3

How did you install the app?

aur

Homeserver

No response

Will you send logs?

No

[dbkr]

Also it doesn't toggle it: it brings it up but it doesn't make it go away again.

[aaronraimist]

Related: #14381

[alexanderstephan]

I would like to look into this issue as I just worked on shortcuts. We could use Ctrl + Shift + I, I meaning info here. What do you think?

[SimonBrandner]

I would like to look into this issue as I just worked on shortcuts. We could use Ctrl + Shift + I, I meaning info here. What do you think?

That is already used for devtools

[alexanderstephan]

Ah, right. Maybe Alt instead of Shift then.

[HarHarLinks]

Ctrl+Shift+M as a mnemonic for menu?

Plain Ctrl+M toggles my browser's menu bar. Perhaps we should keep a list of keybinds with arguments to avoid them...

[alexanderstephan]

Ctrl + M is "mute tab" in my browser (Firefox). Ctrl + Shift + M toggles developer tools with a mobile view, but I am not sure how many people use this though. I think this is tolerable.