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I don't think my last post communicated what I wanted so I'll try again.

Michael chose ctrl+',' as the hotkey because it matches the Mac Human 
Interface Guidelines.
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/user-interaction/keyboard/

On the Mac platform, starting with any other hotkey will cause problems 
with users.

It appears that the other platforms don't really specify a 
preferences/options/settings hotkey, and we need to work a bit harder to 
choose a hotkey but so far 100% of the people that care enough about 
this to suggest one have suggested something other than ctrl+','.

https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/keyboard-input.html.en
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/design/input/keyboard-accelerators
https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/applications/fundamentals/kbd.html

I think this indicates the need to preload the user config directory 
with a platform specific hotkeys file.

Until then, ctrl+',' is the best choice in my opinion because it 
adversely affect the fewest number of people.



On 17/10/2018 11:00 AM, John Beard wrote:
> 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
>
>
>
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