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Bind KHamburgerMenu to OpenGeneralMenu standard shortcut

Felix Ernst requested to merge felixernst/kconfigwidgets:bind_khamburgermenu_to_standard_shortcut into master

Since recently KHamburgerMenu provides all the necessary functionality to open a general menu when activated. It opens the first menu of the menu bar when that is available, or opens the hamburger menu itself when the menu bar is not visible/available/existent.

So, this commit allows consistent opening of a menu using the standard shortcut (currently F10) to open a menu to all users of KHamburgerMenu. Applications can remove this by removing this shortcut from KHamburgerMenu in the application code. However, opening a menu when using the standard shortcut is expected behaviour for accessibility. Until now KDE applications did not provide a consistent way to open a menu, leaving visually-impaired users unable to e.g. focus the menu bar and therefore unable to discover/use all the features such applications had to offer. Check out the commit in KConfig that introduced the standard shortcut "Open General Menu" for more details.

Some applications have completely gotten rid of a menu bar and are only using a hamburger menu. For those it is equally important that triggering the standard shortcut does consistently open a menu.

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