Waveboxapp: Slack Keyboard Shortcuts Intercepted

[jeremymarx]

• Which version of Wavebox are you using? [e.g. 3.0.0]
  3.1.3
• Which Operating System are you using? [e.g. Windows 10, Mac OSX 10, Ubuntu 14.04]
  Win 10

At least two key Slack keyboard shortcuts are being intercepted by wavebox.

Ctrl-T: Used by slack for fast channel switching.
In wavebox/slack: Does nothing.

Ctrl-F: Used by slack for context-aware search. One example of "context-aware": In any channel, Ctrl-F will not only place the cursor in the search box, it will also insert the correct search tags to search only the current channel.
In wavebox/slack: Opens a non-slack search box that appears to search the screen contents.

There are likely others.

[Thomas101]

I think these shortcuts are only in the slack desktop clients and not in the web version, so we'll need to look at adding these in to bring it up to parity. Thanks

[Thomas101]

Added Ctrl+F support in 3.1.6+

[oltreseba]

It would be really nice to have ctrl+T support also as for medium organization it's extremely fast to switch from a chat to an other like that.

[nmat]

Hello, You can always use the Ctrl+K keybinding instead or Ctrl+Shift+K to switch between them. I believe that slack desktop client also now uses Ctrl+K instead of Ctrl+T

[nmat]

If I am not wrong this one could be marked as fixed right?

Since the keybinding that does work now are:
Ctrl+K - Quick switch channel/conversation
Ctrl+F - Go to search in slack (3.6 here at least this works in)

[Thomas101]

Ctrl+F got fixed again in 3.6 (this was broken at some point by slack changes).

I'm seeing Cmd+K and Ctrl+K working now which is consistent with the Slack browser experience - however Ctrl/Cmd+T is still present in the app

[nmat]

But then, should slack connection use the webexperience or the desktop experience?

Because then you would have to overwrite the Ctrl+T right inside slack connection window if I am not wrong?

[Thomas101]

The desktop version supports both K and T so I think we can do that. They probably disalbed T in the browser as this is normally the shortcut for new tab

[nmat]

agreed. If that is the case then of course. Since wavebox does not use Ctrl+T for anything else in general right now. 👍

[Thomas101]

Hi, I’m going to close this off as you can use Cmd / Ctrl+K to access the jump list. The use of the T shortcut is normally reserved in a browser environment which is why Slack doesn't make the shortcut available and this is the same case with Wavebox. Thanks