Paul Gideon Dann wrote:
I managed to fix the global shortcut issue through "Custom Shortcuts" in the System Settings. I had to create a new global shortcut command, and that seemed to work fine. I had thought that once a shortcut to an application was added to a panel, setting "Shortcut" on that widget would invoke the application, but that's not the case. The shortcut in the widget configuration panel seems to be a generic setting, which I assume is intended to e.g. open widget panels and other UI-type interactions, such as a folder view.
Ah, I thought you mean adding icons directly to the panel. For taskbar launchers it is to be expected that it won't work, right, as you can't assign shortcuts to individual launchers. For icons, OTOH, assigned shortcuts should launch the application.