Keyboard accelerators - add, match XnView Classic
Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2016 8:33 pm
I'm trying out XnViewMP for the first time after a long span using XnView Classic, and the thing that's tripping me up is the lack of keyboard accelerators (the underlined letters in menu entries that move selection to those entries).
I never bothered to learn XnView Classic's <Ctrl>-<Shift>-<S> shortcut for File > Save As..., to pick one example, because <Alt>-<F> opens the File menu and then <A> moves the selection to that entry; this is faster, for me at least, and it's also a key sequence shared by many more programs than <Ctrl>-<Shift>-<S>.
In XnViewMP 0.83, at least, there are keyboard accelerators for menus, but not for individual menu entries: pressing <Alt>-<F> opens the File menu, but pressing <A> doesn't do anything at that point.
It seems as though sharing keyboard accelerators between the two programs, at least for commonly-used menu entries, might help other users besides myself. I thought I'd suggest it and see what happens.
I never bothered to learn XnView Classic's <Ctrl>-<Shift>-<S> shortcut for File > Save As..., to pick one example, because <Alt>-<F> opens the File menu and then <A> moves the selection to that entry; this is faster, for me at least, and it's also a key sequence shared by many more programs than <Ctrl>-<Shift>-<S>.
In XnViewMP 0.83, at least, there are keyboard accelerators for menus, but not for individual menu entries: pressing <Alt>-<F> opens the File menu, but pressing <A> doesn't do anything at that point.
It seems as though sharing keyboard accelerators between the two programs, at least for commonly-used menu entries, might help other users besides myself. I thought I'd suggest it and see what happens.