Feature request: Keyboard shortcuts for everything

[Jock Murphy]

I already sent in a feature request for keyboard shortcuts for increasing and decreasing a rating, I would like to see keyboard shortcuts — and menu items — for basically everything you can do. If I am looking at an image I would like to be able to hit k, or cmd-k, or whatever seems appropriate, and be able to crop the image, and let the app do all the actions needed to get me there.

This also makes it a bit more obvious what all the features are, and how one might get to them

[Nik Bhatt]

Certainly, more shortcuts can be added, but I won’t add them for “everything”. That would mean adding a shortcut to enable the white balance checkbox and a different one for the split toning checkbox, etc. You can add your own shortcuts for anything in a menu using System Settings and I will add shortcuts for more commands as I go. (It may be counter-intuitive, but some shortcuts are easy to add and some are extremely difficult.). I will also slowly add more commands to the menus to make shortcuts possible to add.

[David Brewster]

I use the free CustomShortcuts app which provides a nice interface for creating or modifying keyboard shortcuts globally or for a specific app.

[David Brewster]

While you wait @jock, the CustomShortcuts app is free and an easy interface to create your own (and modify) keyboard shortcuts globally or by app. https://www.houdah.com/customShortcuts/

[Jock Murphy]

I am familiar with the custom shortcuts app, though mostly I use the builtin facility for anything with a menu item or the shortcuts app. Bu

While there is a limit to the number of keys on the keyboard, I really think everything is the goal one should strive for. But considering that most of the features of the app don’t even have a menu item for them, perhaps one could start there; then I could use System Settings. It also then exposes what the app can do.

[Jock Murphy]

Lets take my Crop example. There is no way to use System Settings to add a shortcut for it because there is no menu item for it. There is a shortcut for it (c), but it is modal. I have to be in editing mode for them to work. And there don’t seem to be shortcuts to take me from mode to mode.

I have to know it is an “editing slider” (perhaps the tooltip for that icon needs a change?), and then that the first icon means crop. There is also no keyboard navigation between controls as far as I can tell, and yes I have keyboard navigation on in SystemSettings. This is an accessibility fail.

I am not even sure if the custom shortcuts app would help with most of these things. But too much of the ui has poor discoverability, I shouldn’t have to go running to the documentation to know if a feature is present. I shouldn’t have to roll over an icon to know what it means. As a disabled person, this stuff is important, and just like curb cuts they help everyone.

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