Command Palette and Shortcuts

Command palette & shortcuts

Gubbins has a command palette for jumping anywhere and finding anything without hunting through menus — the fast, keyboard-first way to drive the app.

Where to find it: the quick-search / command palette, available from anywhere in the app.

The command palette

Open the palette and start typing to:

• Jump to any screen — Inventory, Reports, Contacts, Settings, and the rest.
• Search your items — the same full-text search as the inventory box, from wherever you are.
• Run common actions quickly.

It's the quickest route around Gubbins once you know your way — no reaching for the menu.

💡 Tip When you want something specific and don't care which screen it's on, reach for the palette first. It searches items and destinations together, so you often get there in a few keystrokes.

Keyboard & accessibility

Gubbins is built to be driven by keyboard and assistive technology throughout:

• Skip-to-content link to bypass navigation.
• Focus trapping in dialogs, with focus restored on close.
• Arrow-key navigation in the location tree and menus.
• Live announcements for status changes, and accessible, associated form errors.
• Reduced-motion support — all decorative animation respects your system setting.

ℹ️ Note Because the palette and shortcuts respect your enabled modules, you'll only be offered destinations and actions that are actually switched on.

Related pages

• Search overview — the search behind the palette.
• Modular UI — what the palette can reach.
• Appearance & theming — reduced-motion and other accessibility aids.