Google-play-music-desktop-player-unofficial-: [Enhancement Request] COMMAND-L/CTRL-L/ALT-D Should select the search bar

[ARTVRO]

OS:
Apple OS X/macOS 10.1X.X; Windows 7, 8.1, 10; Linux distros

Issue Description:
As a power Google Play Music Desktop Player user I would like to be able to select the search bar using the same keyboard shortcuts that I use in a web browser (Chrome/Firefox/et al) to select the address bar.

Benefit:
Those of us that do a lot of text editing would find this enhancement useful as it increases efficiency, precision, and improves the complementarity of the advantages of using the keyboard and mouse.

Steps to Reproduce:
On the keyboard press COMMAND-L or CTRL-L or ALT-D

[MarshallOfSound]

The search bar is a "search / find" field and therefore I have associated the Control/Command+F shortcut with it as this is the "standard" for search boxes.

I won't be taking on this request as I don't see the need to add an alternate, less intuitive hotkey.

Merry Christmas!

[stgarf]

I second @itbuildcharacter's suggestion for ⌘+L since it mirrors "less intuitive" browser standards such as Chrome, Firefox, and Safari 👍

(erm, that said, ⌘+f works just fine save for breaking muscle memory.)

[MarshallOfSound]

since it mirrors "less intuitive" browser standards such as Chrome, Firefox, and Safari

No it doesn't, in browsers (which GPMDP is not) Command + L focuses the URL bar not a search box. In modern browsers the URL bar doubles as a web search entry point but that searches the entire web not the current website.

On the other hand in most application (not just web browsers) Command + F is universally accepted as searching in the current application / context.

Hopefully that explains my opinion a bit better 👍