alt-i keyboard shortcut for torrent inspector doesn't work

[pleasantone]

What is the issue?

Browser is MacOS Safari

Keyboard shortcut hint says to use "Alt-I" to open the inspection window.
This would, using a Mac keyboard, usually translate to either Option-I (correct) or Command-I (problematic).
Neither work. Command-I is problematic because the command keys are often in use by the browser (e.g. Command-O opens a dialog box).

Fixes:

• Allow option- versions of the keys through the web interface.
• Better yet, allow straight keys again (just like transmission 3.0), which will work much better on mobile screens!

Which application of Transmission?

Web client

Which version of Transmission?

4.0.0-stable

[ckerr]

Confirmed on macOS using both Safari and Chrome.

Works on Linux in Chrome.

Probably just a poor choice of accelerators; let's try some different defaults.

[tessus]

let's try some different defaults.

Does this mean we can change them somehow by hacking a file?

[ckerr]

If you're willing to re-webpack the code, yes!

The actions and their shortcuts are in web/src/action-manager.js

If you have npm installed, you can rebuild transmission-app.js with:

$ cd web/
$ npm install
$ npm run build

And then use that new copy of transmission-app.js instead of the old one.

[tessus]

Nice, I can play around with this. Cool.

[tessus]

I have changed the shortcuts to:

and it works brilliantly. Thanks for the tip how to change them! 👍

Btw, I've tried to use Control+Shift+A for Deselect all, but this didn't work. The Shift seems to be ignored, thus it just selects all.

[ckerr]

@tessus unmodified shortcuts are problematic. If you could add some modifiers on IOPRS that work on both Safari and Chrome then that would be great for a bugfix patch!

[tessus]

Ah, ok. In that case I just make the others also use Control and send a PR.

It's just that Pause and Preferences both start with P and I have no idea how U has anything to do with Pause, except maybe it's the 3rd letter in the word that hasn't been used yet. ;-)

Also, Control+O (and I and P) are not easy to do with only one hand on a MacBook, b/c there is no right ctrl key. However, this is just an observation.