Feature to customize hotkeys

I would like to suggest a feature to allow users to remap the hotkeys for the different tools. The workflow overall is pretty smooth and convenient however one things that would make it a lot better would be to have the ability to map the hotkeys to something more intuitive or fitting of the keyboard.

As an example the different point tools use capital letters for picking the tool which makes it unusable with one hand due to how far you need to move between the keys and constantly misstype.

A proper UX for the hotkeys would be to instead have all the keys clustered close together, traditionally on the left side of the keyboard since the right hand is for the mouse.

So for the point tools for example, I would say a layout like Ctrl + Q/W/E/A/S/D would make this feature useful and the workflow much faster.

In this layout, the hand doesn’t actually need to move from the same position. In the current implementation I would have to either let go of the mouse and use both hands to use the combinations or look away from the screen and watch my keyboard to actually press the right buttons for the hotkey to work,

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Shortcuts are capitalized in the Tooltips & Menus as lower case letters don’t read well.

Also shortcuts are case insenstive, unless modified with the SHIFT key. Any shortcut like Point - Length and Angle…

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You can have your right hand on the mouse… with the left hand press l… then press a. That’s what the “comma” means… as opposed to pressing a modifier + a key… like Ctrl + O.

That being said, it’s not a trivial thing to have dynamically coded shortcuts as you have to have a shortcut manager to register / unregister shortcuts. You can’t just have a user set any shortcut they want to any tool, as a shortcut can’t be duplicated.

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