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Followup of Custom Shortcuts: Lost after each beta update. Mockup:




Design Proposal 1: Tree with auto-expansion and filtering
• When filtering in the menu path, the entire tree until the match is expanded.
• Non matching command paths are hidden.
• The match in each lines shows as highlighted.

If that tree auto expansion logic during filtering is too hard, I have a cheap alternative in mind:

Design Proposal 2: Browse as tree or filter as flat list
Keep two synced representations of the same data-set:

1) The tree view for browsing as long as both filtering fields are empty.
2) View as flat lines in "Menu→Path→Command" fashion (1:1 as in the text file before the TAB separator) whenever one of the filter fields is filled.
- Not only potentially easier to implement, but also more compact to read/compare.
- Highlighting the matching part is probably also "included for free" by Cocoa features.
- Interestingly also the Menu Search in macOS Cocoa Apps displays the results in a "Path > to … > Command" fashion:

The used NSOutlineView from Apple does currently not support this.

@forum_adm :
• Okay, one has to work with what's available then.
• The UX design proposal is archived here should the underpinning technology allow a redesign one day.

The next steps will be:
• keyboard shortcuts independent of the language
• option to hide menu items

But that will be a separate topic.

Glad to hear about those plans too!