shortcut for toggling left activity bar avoids setting brackets and other important keyboard chars on macos

[ArtMattner]

Description

By default the shortcuts to toggle the left activity bar are set to option key with numbers 1 to 0.
I can't change it and it avoids me to set brackets and other important chars on the keyboard.
Every time you want to open/close brackets you don't open or close them but instead this left activity bar toggles.

Reproduce

1. Create a new Notebook or open an existing
2. Write some code and try to set a bracket with option + 5
3. See toggling the left activity bar

Expected behavior

By keyboard "option + 5" I expect to get an opening square bracket: "["

Context

• Operating System and version: MacOS Sonoma 14.3.1
• JupyterLab-Desktop version: 14.1.0-1
  

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[krassowski]

@ArtMattner thank you for reporting. This is tracked in jupyterlab/jupyterlab#15744 and the part with Alt + key is already fixed, to be released later today. There is also an issue with backticks/square brackets on Italian (and possibly other) keyboard(s) which has a draft PR opened but requires user testing because unfortunately I do not have an Italian Mac available - please see: jupyterlab/jupyterlab#15744 (comment)

[JasonWeill]

Closing in favor of jupyterlab/jupyterlab#15744. @ArtMattner Thank you for reporting this!

[ArtMattner]

I have to thank you for your fast and friendly investigation! @JasonWeill & @krassowski 👏