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JoelOlofsson
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July 4, 2023
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P: Separate the choice of UI language from the keyboard layout and associated shortcuts

  • July 4, 2023
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There are many reasons for wanting to use LR in a language that doesn't match one's location. People who have moved countries might want to use the software in their native language. Others might use a different language than their native one for work. English is not my first language but, since most of the discourse, help-threads, and guides for LR are in English, I still want to use that language for the UI. The problem is that keyboards in my region don't generally feature dedicated keys for symbols like square brackets and forward slash, which are used for shortcuts in the English version of the software. Instead, these symbols are behind a modifier. This makes many useful shortcuts unavailable.

 

Making the keyboard layout an optional separate choice from the rest of the localisation would be a big QoL improvement for the software.

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johnrellis
johnrellis
Legend
July 7, 2023

While waiting for Adobe to implement this, you can use the Any Shortcut plugin to change those shortcuts that don't work on your keyboard.

D Fosse
Community Expert
D FosseCommunity Expert
Community Expert
July 4, 2023

This is handled in the operating system, not the application.

 

I live in Norway and use Norwegian keyboards, but I use English Windows and English CC applications. It's no problem as such, keyboard shortcuts work as intended. However, you're right that there is one remaining problem: regional keyboards may simply be missing some keys altogether. Scandinavian languages have a few extra letters, and that means some of the other keys have to go. There are no square brackets, for instance.

 

In Photoshop you solve that easily by remapping any shortcut to whatever you want. That's not possible in Lightroom.

 

So I would suggest that the feature request be expanded to cover the bigger picture: Let shortcuts be customizable, like they are in Photoshop.

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