Ipfs-desktop: Keyboard shortcuts

[daviddias]

I would like to have the electron app listening to 2 keyboard shortcuts:

• listen to {cmd, ctrl}+i+d - If a piece of text is selected and if that piece of text is a valid hash, it gets downloaded
• listen to {cmd, ctrl}+i+u - If a file or a group of files are selected, those files get uploaded

Does someone have opinions/thoughts on this? Maybe other hotkeys for better UX?

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Todo

• [ ] ctrl+alt+u = upload selected
• [x] ctrl+alt+s = screenshot upload
• [x] ctrl+alt+d = download hash selected

[jbenet]

veyr much :+1: to this.

one thing: may not be able to do +i+{d,u} because those are letters, not modifiers. afaik keyboards dont like that?

[daviddias]

More than one 'non modifier key' ref: https://github.com/atom/electron/issues/2486

[daviddias]

Ok, can't do 2 key codes

Going for:
ctrl+alt+u = upload selected
ctrl+alt+s = screenshot upload
ctrl+alt+d = download hash selected

[hacdias]

Gonna start this 😄

[hacdias]

Updated the main comment https://github.com/ipfs-shipyard/ipfs-station/issues/31#issue-100265996

[hacdias]

@diasdavid what if you did CTRL+C on your hash and then CTRL+ALT+D to download the copied hash? ~(The same for uploading the files).~ (Electron doesn't have support to 'read' files from clipboard)

[hacdias]

Download the last copied hash is now working 😄 I don't know if we should let this opened or not. I can't find any "positive" information about reading files from the clipboard on Electron. /cc @diasdavid

[daviddias]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Thank you @hacdias :)