I'm the maintainer of SolydK, a Debian based distribution with the KDE DE.

I'm trying to map the Windows Key to the Kickoff menu.

I've created /etc/xdg/autostart/wkxmodmap.desktop

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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Name=Super key launcher shortcut for KDE
Exec=xmodmap -e 'keycode 133 = F13'
Terminal=false
Type=Application
StartupNotify=false
OnlyShowIn=KDE;

and /etc/skel/.kde/share/config/kglobalshortcutsrc

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[plasma-desktop]
activate widget 4=F13,F13,Activate Application Launcher Widget

After creating a new user, and login as that user, all settings in the pre-defined kglobalshortcutsrc are overwritten with the default values. However, I can manually map the Windows Key to launch kickoff which then writes the above "activate widget" line to the user's kglobalshortcutsrc.

How can I pre-define global shortcuts for our users without losing them?

Plasma Widgets should be setup using Plasma layouts - which are written in Javascript.
Documentation on this can be found on KDE Techbase.

You are right, of course.
How could I have forgotten about those scripts?

For future reference: I now have these lines in my script, and now the Windows Key opens kickoff:

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  launcher = panel.addWidget("launcher")
  launcher.globalShortcut = "F13"

Thanks for your help.