GerbView open file/folder shortcut is missing

[Leandro Heck]

Hi guys, it will be really nice to have a shortcut to open gerbers.

Application: gerbview
Version: 5.1.2-f72e74a~84~ubuntu19.04.1, release build
Libraries:
    wxWidgets 3.0.4
    libcurl/7.64.0 OpenSSL/1.1.1b zlib/1.2.11 libidn2/2.0.5 libpsl/0.20.2 (+libidn2/2.0.5) libssh/0.8.6/openssl/zlib nghttp2/1.36.0 librtmp/2.3
Platform: Linux 5.0.0-13-generic x86_64, 64 bit, Little endian, wxGTK
Build Info:
    wxWidgets: 3.0.4 (wchar_t,wx containers,compatible with 2.8) GTK+ 3.24
    Boost: 1.67.0
    OpenCASCADE Community Edition: 6.9.1
    Curl: 7.64.0
    Compiler: GCC 8.3.0 with C++ ABI 1013

Build settings:
    USE_WX_GRAPHICS_CONTEXT=OFF
    USE_WX_OVERLAY=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_MODULES=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_PYTHON3=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_WXPYTHON_PHOENIX=ON
    KICAD_SCRIPTING_ACTION_MENU=ON
    BUILD_GITHUB_PLUGIN=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCE=ON
    KICAD_USE_OCC=OFF
    KICAD_SPICE=ON

[Wayne Stambaugh (stambaughw)]

This is somewhat annoying. The problem is we have multiple open file statements in the file menu so the real issue may be somewhat larger than just a missing open file shortcut. That's probably why no shortcut was provided. Which open should you assign the shortcut to? Perhaps we need to rethink all of these open file targets and use the more typical wildcard/file type selection paradigm.

[Leandro Heck (leoheck)]

Wayne, you are totally right, it is important to think a good approach here. While EEschema and PcbNew have really good shortcuts, the other tools lack this feature.

So, why not to do something simple while we don't have a really specialized solution.

I would say that Ctrl+o should open Gerbers (and also zip files).
And something like Ctrl+Shift+o could open the drill files.

[KiCad Janitor (kicad-janitor)]

KiCad bug tracker has moved to Gitlab. This report is now available here: https://gitlab.com/kicad/code/kicad/-/issues/2408