P: Allow for keyboard shortcut customization

I can see @Rikk Flohr: Photography updated the status last year to 'No Status'.

Rikk, can you please explain what's going on here and why there isn't a move to create customizable shortcuts for Lightroom? Is it really such a big pain on the back-end?

Seems like that's the most popular thing users seem to ask for, and 11 years of subscriptions, maybe it would be fair to address it?

Another alternative I've been using for more than a year now is LRSuperKeys. Works on both Windows and MacOs. One Time Fee, no subscription. It does not only offer keyboard customization, but also replicated Capture One's Speed Edit Keys-functionality.

https://lrsuperkeys.com/ 

Hey All, if you're using macOS, I think our application, Power Keys, would be a good fit for you. It allows you to make changes to develop sliders with keyboard shortcuts, personalize your keyboard shortcuts, and apply develop presets with keyboard shortcuts. There is a cost, but we have hundreds of happy subscribers who use Power Keys to edit faster. It's perfect for high-volume photographers such as wedding and portrait photographers. You can check it out here: www.getpowerkeys.com.

I think the answer speaks for itself...  Yet another requested feature that's been sitting for a decade that reminds me every time I use Lightroom what a PITA it is to work with pick flags when you're culling...  OR when you want to change magnification and you're used to the Photoshop shortcut...  I don't think simple features like configurability for productivity get much traction against glitz and hype...

It's been 13 years since this post.. what has the LR team been doing??

I certainly find it frustrating not to be able to do a couple trivial shortcuts that would speed up my processing or prevent me from regularly slapping myself in the forehead, but considering how many years some of this has been requested, and the total lack of response, I think we're beating a dead horse... 

I'd be happy[ier] if Lightroom just followed the same flow as Photoshop and made Ctrl/0 do a fit image instead of toggling the histogram - which in all the years of USING Lightroom I've NEVER needed to do.  That one I probably hit automatically at LEAST a half dozen times a day.

Another thing that would make culling faster would be to be able to put the UNflag that's currently on the "U", forcing me to take my hand off the mouse every time I need it when culling, on the "C" so it's RIGHT NEXT to the Reject on the "X".  I don't recall what the "C" does by default 'cause I don't think I've ever used that either... 

I've tried to get those in the translation file, but have never been successful.

It WOULD be nice to have a little more flexibility and control over the Lightroom editing environment.

I agree adobe should make as people said in Photoshop but also like primere it's amazing how you can chose and edit your shortcuts. Can't can't how many times I by mistake pressed or held down CTRL P Or worse X. But no way to switch my flaging keys to something else or even shutting off all together. If you do something to much you can't even CTRL Z it and if you don't have a backup before of your catalog it's all lost. It's about time adobe fixes this. Make and allow us to choose what shortcuts do what and even shut off ones we choose. 

Sorry, back to flogging the dead horse..............  I'm on Windows, so I need to edit the translation file.

I'm looking at the translation file that's in resources/en.

I'm using the translation file in resources/es as a source to try to find the current key 'cause the english file doesn't have anything.

I'd like to do 2 things.

I'd like to STOP having the "z" key do "ToggleZoomView"  and have it do EITHER "NextPhoto" (preferrable) OR SetPick/Flagged.  When I press the z I want to go to the next image, just like it does when I press "x" to reject an image.  I don't care if the image is flagged or not, I just want hitting z to go to the next image.

If I CAN'T have ctrl+0 do a "fit" on the image, can I at LEAST have it do a ToggleZoomView?  SOMETHING other than toggling the #$%^&* histogram on and off.

This is what's in the Spanish translation file

"$$$/AgLibrary/Menu/View/ToggleZoomView/Key=z"

"$$$/AgLibrary/Menu/Photo/SetPick/Flagged/Key=p"

Can somebody explain why I CAN'T do

"$$$/AgLibrary/Menu/View/ToggleZoomView/Key=Crtl+0"
"$$$/AgLibrary/Menu/Photo/SetPick/Flagged/Key=z"

Are all these things locked somehow, or what IS going on?

So long as I'm in the keyword input field, letters are just letters and not shortcuts. Windows 10.

@JimButNotHim: "I'm sick of thinking I'm in the field to allocate a keyword, typing a keyword that includes D and finding I'm in the develop model. Other built-in shortcuts are equally annoying."

Do you find that if you explicitly click in the Keywording box and type "d", you're taken to Develop, or type "f" and taken to Full Screen Preview? A few others (all on Mac, not Windows like you) have reported similar symptoms:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/lightroom-classic-discussions/entering-text-in-metadata-launches-keyboard-shortcut/m-p/14115108

The symptoms they describe are clearly a bug. If your symptoms are similar, as a next troubleshooting step, resetting LR's preferences:
https://www.lightroomqueen.com/articles-page/how-do-i-reset-lightrooms-preferences/

LR sometimes soils its preferences file, and resetting it can fix all sorts of wonky behavior. That article explains how to restore the old preferences if resetting doesn't help.

Follow up with your results (positive or negative) on that other thread.