[chandler-users] mouse-free hotkeys in Chandler Desktop

[Jeffrey Harris]

Hi Alan,

>  Has anyone else asked for mouse-free functionality in
>  Chandler Desktop?

This is definitely an oft-requested feature.

As it happens, it's trivial to add this for any command that appears in 
a menu.  So trivial, in fact, that the real issue for existing menu 
items is about what the keyboard shortcuts should be on the various 
platforms :)

There aren't currently menu items for changing triage status, but adding 
them would be pretty easy.  I think there's already a bug to allow 
multi-select -> change triage status en masse.

I think this issue is an almost ideal starter project for someone who'd 
like to contribute to Chandler.

If you're interested in playing around with this, look at your local 
version of this file:

http://lxr.osafoundation.org/source/chandler/parcels/osaf/views/main/menus.py

Once you've changed or added shortcuts, you'll need to restart Chandler 
with the ctrl key held down, and select "clean up, but keep my data" (I 
think that works, if not, you'll need to start with a fresh repository).

Adding menu items for triage status would take a little more effort, but 
not much more, so if you're interested in working on that, please speak 
up!  I think probably questions about doing that should live on 
chandler-dev, though.

Sincerely,
Jeffrey