Change: Modifier key for hot pressing a button

[dnmeid]

Is this a feature relevant to companion itself, and not a module?

• I believe this to be a feature for companion, not a module

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Describe the feature

Now with next update beeing a major number, I feel we can be a little more daring with some changes.
So I' like to propose to change the modifier key for the hot pressing a button in the grid from shift to control.
Reason: aligning with common and standard key-combinations in other popular software.
We want to introduce better edition features for the grid and lists like moving and selecting multiple controls. There are some widely used workflows: klick and drag to span a selection boundary, alt-klick to toggle an item's selection, shift-klick to select range until this item, control-klick for application dependent actions. Especially in (action-) lists that often need scrolling the range selection is a common task.
If we stay on shift-klick for hot pressing, we would need to use a different modifier for range selection and that would be way off established standards.

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[Julusian]

I'm open to changing this, but I'm not sure about it being control.
In my experience it is usually control that will toggle an items selection. And I worry that using control will cause accidental presses when using ctrl-x and ctrl-v to move things around

I am wondering if we should go more radical; in some ways it is a little odd that we blur the lines between this grid being an editor with the hotkey to trigger presses. But I don't have any ideas on what to do instead, it is useful..

[dnmeid]

In terms of selection I most often see alt-click for toggling. E.g. it is used in the Windows explorer, in macOS finder, in nearly all Linux window managers, in the complete Microsoft office suite, in Libre office, Open office, in all the Adobe applications. Do you have an example where control is used for toggling selection?
I'd say for the hot press, control is the most logical choice because you actually execute something with it and that is exactly what control is meant for.
In text processors usually shift-arrow extends the selection (=range selection) and control-arrow moves the cursor by a word (= non selection operation).

[dnmeid]

I just realised Libre office calc does indeed use control for toggle selection of cells.
To be clear, for me the goal is not to have the shortcut replaced exactly by control. The goal is to align our shourtcuts with what is used the most in similar popular applications.
There doesn't seem to be the one and only standard, so maybe we'll just have to collect some examples and then decide which applications seem to be the best practice to follow.