1389124 - How does one picks a shortcut for its add-on?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1303384

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Rémy Hubscher (:natim)]

For the sidebar API it is possible to configure a shortcut in order for people to use their keyboard to switch to the sidebar.

      "suggested_key": {
        "default": "Ctrl+Shift+H"
      }

The problem is that regarding the locale set, the shortcut can already be used by another component or even another add-on.

How is one suppose to find a working shortcut in that context (at least that doesn't impact other Firefox features?) Is there a list of used shortcut somewhere?

Is it possible to create a configuration in the add-on preferences panel to let user change the default shortcut if they have to?

I am also interested in documenting that feature in MDN so that people can have a strategy to find a proper add-on shortcut for their extensions.

Comment 1

[Ryan Feeley [:rfeeley]]

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Interestingly on MacOS, you can set it at the system level and it works fine.

One small vote against adding one in Firefox.

Does Windows offer something like this?

Comment 2

[Andy McKay]

We are aiming to do bug 1303384 which would allow you to change within the browser so you can customise what short cut goes where. I would suggest duping to that, unless you want to do some docs until that bug is landed.