Keyboard map : why not adding 'Menu' key as a modifier?

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Hello all,

I've just noticed almost all keyboards now have a special key which symbolizes as a 'menu' key or a 'context menu' key. It acts a bit like the 'windows' key as it's supposed to be used with another key to act on menu on windows.

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Today on dopus if i try to use this key in a new dopus hotkey it will just act as a bracket ' ] ' character.

It would be great to be able to use this key combined with another key in the dopus keyboard map. For example we could assign something like 'menu_key + A' or 'menu_key + 4' etc (all keyboard possibilities like we could do with 'windows key')

Technically, i imagine it could be possible as system wide hotkey. For example, i've noticed the application 'conemu' is able to redefine keys with this 'menu_key' as they call this key 'apps' in this application (by default, as an example, they use 'menu_key + F' to search for text in the console output)

Cheers,
Ant

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The menu key opens the context menu for the thing that currently has input focus, similar to clicking the right mouse button on things.

It isn't a modifier key, at least in Windows, so it isn't treated as one. Not all keys on the bottom line of the keyboard are modifiers.

Edit:

List of modifiers here, as two examples:

Ctrl, Alt, Shift and Win are the only qualifier keys in Windows. (AltGr is really a combination of two of the main qualifiers.)

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