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Add keyboard shortcut disable setting

Open Half-Shot opened this issue 2 weeks ago • 3 comments

Not everyone loves a keyboard shortcut, so allow disabling them if you are not a fan.

Half-Shot avatar Dec 05 '25 16:12 Half-Shot

@erikjohnston feedbacks that he's a difficult (reasonable) person who would like to have shortcuts for muting/unmuting and actions but the numeric reaction buttons are annoying.

I'm actually wondering if we just drop them, do they feel useful?

Half-Shot avatar Dec 09 '25 11:12 Half-Shot

@erikjohnston feedbacks that he's a difficult (reasonable) person who would like to have shortcuts for muting/unmuting and actions but the numeric reaction buttons are annoying.

I'm actually wondering if we just drop them, do they feel useful?

that is something for product. And note that the shortcut situation is a bit weird as: if EC widget is in foreground the messenger shortcuts are not working and vice versa.

cc @daniellekirkwood

fkwp avatar Dec 09 '25 12:12 fkwp

@erikjohnston feedbacks that he's a difficult (reasonable) person who would like to have shortcuts for muting/unmuting and actions but the numeric reaction buttons are annoying.

I'm actually wondering if we just drop them, do they feel useful?

For context: I heavily rely on desktop shortcuts that involve numerals (either switching chrome tabs or linux workspaces), and I semi-frequently trigger reactions by accident due to mistyping the shortcuts. This is obviously quite bad as it triggers spurious noise on everyone who is on the call (whereas e.g. the mute/unmute buttons only have local affect so it matters less if you accidentally mute/unmute yourself, assuming you notice).

While being able to disable shortcuts for reactions would help me, I think reaction shortcuts should be harder to trigger (e.g. by adding a modifier key), given a) the impact and b) numeral shortcuts are commonly used.

erikjohnston avatar Dec 09 '25 12:12 erikjohnston