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Issue 141: Ability to restore hotkeys to their defaults
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Status:  Fixed
Owner:  mcored
Closed:  Nov 26
Cc:  rgrthat
Type-Enhancement
Priority-Medium


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Reported by wearenotamused, Sep 23, 2009
What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?

On the Hotkeys tab of the Options window, provide a way for users to reset 
a particular action to its default hotkey combination, (which would be nice 
to be able to see before reseting to it). If that combination is currently 
assigned to another action, ask the user what to do. A "Restore defaults" 
button on that tab to reset them all would be good, too.

Actually, what do you think of this:

Insert a new "Default" column of buttons between Description and Keys. 
Rename "Keys" to "Custom". The default buttons' labels would always be the 
default combo for the actions, but each would only be enabled when that 
default wasn't already the combo in effect.

Clicking an enabled default button would reset the hotkey for that action 
to that default. The custom button would retain its current combo and stay 
enabled--it just wouldn't be the combo in effect anymore. Single-clicking a 
custom button not already in effect (which the user would know based on 
whether the default button were enabled or not) would put it into effect. 
Single-clicking a custom button already in effect would prompt the user to 
enter a new custom combo.


What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?

The basic ability to reset to default would allow me to roll back my 
unsuccessful attempt to set a hotkey to Win-PrtSc to whatever it was 
before. :-D

The specific mechanism I suggest would not only allow the user to reset an 
action to its default combo, but let them see what that default is before 
doing so. As a bonus, they could retain their most recent custom combo per 
action while using the default combo again for a while.
Comment 1 by mcored, Sep 26, 2009
I have considered a 80/20 effort on this proposal. I have made the Default Hotkeys
visible for reference purposes. If the user wishes to go back to the default hotkey,
he/she can simply change this using their keyboard by referring to the default hotkey
- expected duration for this task is about 2 seconds. If there was an additional
control to reset the hotkey, the user would have saved about 1 second, but the effort
put into getting it working is far more greater. There will be a button to reset all
hotkeys to default. 
Status: Accepted
Owner: mcored
Cc: rgrthat
Comment 2 by wearenotamused, Sep 28, 2009
Fair enough! :) Thanks
Comment 3 by mcored, Nov 26, 2009
http://wmwiki.com/mcored/zscreen/ZScreen_3.20.7.2_Beta-2009.11.26-23.19.46.png
Status: Fixed
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