Can't bind +/=/[/] in keyboard shortcuts

[Naharie]

My existing setup in Plasma is to bind Meta+- to zoom out and Meta++ to zoom in. Unfortunately plasma manager doesn't allow either of those as +, =, [, and ] are always escaped. This is not correct behavior. Use the GUI to bind one of those combos and you will find that it generates what it displays (Meta++, Meta+=, Meta+[, etc.) in the config file.

Maybe it would be possible to skip escaping these for keyboard shortcuts?

[Sporif]

Meta++ works for me. When I have this set:

plasma.shortcuts.kwin."view_zoom_in" = "Meta++";

plasma-manager produces:

[kwin]
view_zoom_in=Meta++,Meta++\tMeta+=,Zoom In

[Naharie]

Okay, so I updated my flake's inputs and something must of changed, because I do see what you are saying now. Attempting to bind "Meta++" results in the correct text in kglobalshortcutssrc:

view_zoom_in=Meta++,,
view_zoom_out=Meta+-,,

System settings will show it correctly now, but the shortcuts don't function.
My dotfiles are public on github (dotfiles) if you want to take a look and see what I might be doing wrong.

[Naharie]

Okay, so I updated my flake's inputs and something must of changed, because I do see what you are saying now. Attempting to bind "Meta++" results in the correct text in kglobalshortcutssrc:

view_zoom_in=Meta++,,
view_zoom_out=Meta+-,,

System settings will show it correctly now, but the shortcuts don't function.
My dotfiles are public on github (dotfiles) if you want to take a look and see what I might be doing wrong.

Update: for whatever reason if you tell kwin to reload shortcuts within the session it will load other changes but not those two bindings, but if you log out and then log in they functional correctly.