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Feature Request: add a settings section to create per-app shortcuts to click specific UI elements.

YousufSSyed opened this issue · 0 comments

An alternative to pulling up the search bar and typing the name of an element to match, users should be able to pick any select-able element in an app (including ones that can't be searched and or don't have a label, if possible) and assign a hotkey to automatically click them. Here's what it could look like:

  • A setting section called "shortcuts" where users could click a plus button to add a specific app which they want shortcuts on.
  • Each app has their own heading section with all of the assigned shortcuts, and there's a plus button in each section to add a new shortcut.
  • After the user presses that + button, the user is directed to the app in question, showing all the UI elements, including ones that can't be searched, and a user could click a specific one to assign a hotkey
Screenshot 2023-07-02 at 6 21 14 PM

These buttons in Activity Monitor can't be searched, but a user would be able to select them anyway.

  • The user is directed back to the shortcuts section once they've picked an element.

Here's a rough text UI mockup:

[add app]

Activity Monitor

[CPU] [CMD SHIFT B]
[Memory] [CMD SHIFT M]