Make the Spacebar available as an activation shortcut for Peek

[nobel15]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

The ability to assign the Spacebar as the activation shortcut for Peek, without the need to start with Alt, Crtl, Shift or Win-key. Similar to how Preview is working on MacOS.

Scenario when this would be used?

As of now it is not possible to use space alone as an activation shortcut. Coming from a lifetime on Mac and using a bunch of PowerToys utilities to emulate the Mac UI navigation - especially the (in my view superior) shortcut navigation - this would be so nice. I'm currently using Quicklook instead of Peek, which allows the use of Space, but would prefer to only use PowerToys for everything.

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[ethanfangg]

/dup #26143

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[akamienski]

is there any update on this?

[daverayment]

@akamienski this is being tracked under #26143. Please don't spam duplicate issues asking for an update.

As far as I'm aware, accessing Peek via just Space isn't being worked on at the moment.