[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 148258] Regaining user control over keyboard customization

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148258

--- Comment #8 from Vince <vreher at cox.net> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #7)
> (In reply to Vince from comment #6)
> > The request here is NOT simply about mnemonics but about the ability to
> > override those mnemonics via keyboard customization.
> 
> The customization changes the assignment of shortcuts to UNO commands. It
> never changed mnemonics from _File (alt+F) to F_ile (alt+I). You may have
> Alt+P for Open, instead of ctrl+O, but the mnemonic alt+O will work anyway.

Perhaps I didn't describe it precisely. With a fresh profile, Alt+a brings up
the table submenu. Since I don't need to access the table submenu very often, I
prefer for that keystroke to do something more useful to me: execute my
MyFavoriteMacro. I customize the keyboard to assign Alt+a to do just that. When
I need to access the table submenu, I can still do so with a variety of other
methods: mouse click; type F6 (focus on menubar), followed by 'a'; type F10,
followed by right arrow 5 times. All of this worked just fine for many years
but stopped working recently.

> Alt+<key> combinations should not be used for shortcuts at all.

Where does this come from? The capability was introduced a long time ago, after
lots of impassioned discussion (see
https://bz.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=4756). I suspect a lot of people are
using it, including those who reported bug 146174.

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