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Add an option in DevDiagnostics Settings where the user can change the hotkey to her preferred key combination

Open andreww-msft opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Suggested new feature or improvement

PI ships with a pre-defined hotkey combination (Windows-F12). This was chosen for several reasons:

  1. Key combinations with the Windows key are the least likely to conflict with any app-defined keys.
  2. F12 echoes the Edge F12 key for developer diagnostics.
  3. Limiting the key combination to 2 keys makes it easier and faster to use.
  4. While F* keys are problematic on some laptop keyboards (involving an additional function key), most developers will likely have full-size machines with full-size keyboards.

That said, one of our guiding principles is to enable user-configuration. So allowing the user to choose her own preferred key combinations is entirely reasonable.

Also see related #3466

andreww-msft avatar Jul 19 '24 17:07 andreww-msft