[wishlist] Assignable keyboard shortcuts for each LPE

[Liam P. White]

In trunk, I believe at least one keyboard shortcut for an LPE already has a verb (and therefore a keyboard shortcut), the Clone Original Path LPE.

Since making keyboard shortcuts is one of the main ways to reduce the amount of time spent on a vector, I propose this:

• In the Preferences dialog, each LPE can be assigned a keyboard shortcut. By default, only one or two have shortcuts.
• If the LPE has no special override of the assignment shortcut, just assign the LPE to the selected item (which should be default behaviour)
• If the LPE does have a special override of the assignment shortcut, pass control the LPE (which in Clone Original's case would create a new object with an empty fill above the selected object, by retrieving the active selection and operating on that)

A great example of the possibility of the third option there is Fill Between Many ( http://sta.sh/0mze2vk449o ) , a path effect in Ponyscape. The multiple selected items have a fill created between them through a verb in Ponyscape (it is very similar to the Clone Original function!), but I would like to see this as a possibility without a verb.

The second and third options can be controlled through a virtual method in the Effect class, that defaults to applying the LPE to the selected items (but can be overriden in derived classes to perform different behaviours).

[Zhart (zhart)]

> In the Preferences dialog, each LPE can be assigned a keyboard shortcut

It will be great, it really helps to save a lot of time.