ctrl-escape issue on Windows 10

[Julian Knight]

Hi again,

I'm a real keyboard freak & hate having to swap to the mouse, especially when editing things like a function node.

I was delighted to learn that you'd included ctrl-return as an equivalent of the OK button.

Unfortunately, not so delighted to find out that esc (cancel) was now ctrl-esc since that key combination is a standard Windows 10 key to bring up the start menu.  :(

Any chance of those keys being configurable in settings?

[Nicholas O'Leary]

Urgh, thought that would be safe to use. Don't really want to make it configurable, would like things to just work.

To be clear, is the problem that we've overridden Ctrl-Esc so the start menu doesn't open... or that when you try to close the dialog the start menu takes precedence? 

Nick

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[Julian Knight]

I know the pain of trying to choose usable keyboard shortcuts!! Urgh indeed.

I'm afraid (or maybe that's good) that Windows global shortcuts take preference so the start menu still opens. To be honest, I'd actually forgotten that ctrl-esc did that, I'm so used to keyboards with a Windows key.

Even shift- or alt- esc are not available. Not sure what alt-esc does but you loose focus on the current app. shift-esc is intercepted by Chrome to bring up its internal task manager. ctrl-shift-esc brings up the W10 task manager.

Personally, I'd be happy for it to remain as esc but I understand that this is not very beginner friendly. ctrl-q maybe?