Hi list,
I had one small suggestion to the Pd GUI - I think to remember that before it was possible to open files in the "recent" list using only one keyboard key. As it is now, it's only possible to use the mouse, or many keyboard keystrokes. If it's possible to add the typical alt-activation of menus not only for the main menu, but also for the options under the menu? This would make navigation much easier.
Best,
jmmmp
On 2025-11-09 16:10, João Pais wrote:
Hi list,
I had one small suggestion to the Pd GUI - I think to remember that before it was possible to open files in the "recent" list using only one keyboard key. As it is now, it's only possible to use the mouse, or many keyboard keystrokes. If it's possible to add the typical alt-activation of menus not only for the main menu, but also for the options under the menu? This would make navigation much easier.
+1
i also used the nice "alt+1" shortcut to open the most recent patch a lot in the older versions and miss it now
Best
Oliver
Am 11. November 2025 11:19:22 MEZ schrieb oliver oliver@klingt.org:
On 2025-11-09 16:10, João Pais wrote:
If it's possible to add the typical alt-activation of menus not only for the main menu, but also for the options under the menu? This would make navigation much easier.
+1
i also used the nice "alt+1" shortcut to open the most recent patch a lot in the older versions and miss it now
I fürs what you are experiencing is a success effect of https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/2383 (see https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/2383#issuecomment-2223562844)
afaict, the original shortcut was just something that came automatically from the windowing system, rather than from explicit code in Pd, and now that the recent files have been moved to a submenu (making it consistent across all OSs), the windowing system stopped doing its work.
iirc João is working on Windows, but Oliver on Linux, is that correct? (which window manager?)
as said in the PR, I didn't think this a very important shortcut to begin with, but that's probably because I was thinking about the entirety of the recent files, and I'm still convinced that a shortcut to open eg the "3rd last opened file" is pretty useless (esp since the order changes whenever you open a (recent or new) file), as no one will be able to keep track of a list of 5 self-reordering names). however, I guess that your use case is actually just "open the last file" (history depth = 1), which is much easier to remember.
I guess I could update the "configurable shortcuts" PR, to have an entry for the "last opened file". https://github.com/pure-data/pure-data/pull/2380
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