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[John Beard <john.j.beard@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'd suggest perhaps Ctrl-Shift-P, which is used by Inkscape. P with various modifiers is fairly common shortcut for preferences: https://defkey.com/search?irq=Preferences

I feel like Ctrl-, might be useful as paired hotkey with Ctrl-. (eg increase/decrease)?

Cheers,

John

On 16 October 2018 22:24:51 BST, Michael Kavanagh <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Attached is a patch that assigns Ctrl+, (Cmd+, on Mac as per the HIG)
>to opening the preferences dialog and adds the hotkey to all menu bar
>menus.
>
>Please note this causes a conflict with the "Interactive Router
>Settings..." hotkey in Pcbnew (pcbnew/hotkeys.cpp line 275), so this
>should be set to something else. I didn't know what to set it as so I
>left it. Perhaps require shift or alt?
>
>Also corrected the "hokey" typo throughout.
>
>Cheers,
>Michael