Hi @anjulalk , I had another look at your proposal and one issue I have with it is how the shortcuts themselves are defined: newNoteShortcut: { value: 'CommandOrControl+N', // .... label:() =>_('New note'), } Essentially the shortcut is associated with a label, and somewhere in J…

Since there is not a bad amount of time at hand, it might make sense to rewrite the internal command system. This is of course only my opinion and its up to @laurent to decide. If the command system is not properly defined, then the user will be limited in his ability to make new shortcuts, and als…

Hi @laurent , I was originally proposing to use the existing Setting.js model. The plan would be to store each shortcut as a setting. I was thinking of accessing the setting value by using something like Setting.value('newNoteShortcut'), and the label is the setting label which would be shown in the…

What I have in mind is, we’d store a few shortcut “layouts” hard-coded as JSON files in Joplin’s source. The user can choose one of these layouts as the default layout I wonder if that would be over-engineering it a bit? Because then we need to decide what to do when the user switches the default…

[image] RedDocMD: Since there is not a bad amount of time at hand, it might make sense to rewrite the internal command system. This is of course only my opinion and its up to @laurent to decide. This is planned but I prefer if it's done separately to keep things manageable. I think Anjula's p…

[image] laurent: I wonder if that would be over-engineering it a bit? I agree. It would make sense to focus on one layout first. :blush: [image] laurent: That’s a good idea to add this concept, although I think it would be only a hint at the moment? It would be a hint, and a way of ma…

[image] anjulalk: It’s okay to have the same key combination as long as they are different in context. But if there are conflicting shortcuts within the same context, we can alert the user. Indeed that would be useful for this too :+1:

Suggestion on data structure for keyboard shortcut project

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coderrsid 12 May 2020 06:03 8

Glad to hear this. Hoping this gets implemented in the best way possible.

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Suggestion on data structure for keyboard shortcut project

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