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PowerToys Run: Allow Open as administrator, Open containing folder with arrow keys #4272

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HolsteS opened this issue Jun 12, 2020 · 3 comments
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HolsteS commented Jun 12, 2020

Despite the available shortcuts arrow navigation should be possible

The available keyboard shortcuts to start a program as administrator or open the containing folder are great but one has to remember it. If it is not often used the knowledge is gone.
I would suggest to add arrow key navigation as well.

  1. Search for CMD
  2. Arrow key down to highlight the entry for command prompt
  3. Arrow right Run As Admnistrator is selected (Enter will run as administrator)
  4. Arrow right (second time) Open containing folder is selceted (Enter will open it)
  5. Arrow left Run As Administrator is selected
  6. Arrow left the entry itself is selected
    and so on

I would like to see this feature as from my point of view it is not that much slower than the available shortcuts but easier to remember.

@HolsteS HolsteS changed the title PowerToys Run Allow Open as administrator and Open containing folder with arrow keys PowerToys Run: Allow Open as administrator, Open containing folder with arrow keys Jun 12, 2020
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jyuwono commented Jun 12, 2020

@HolsteS thanks for the feedback! Instead of "Arrow right", you can currently use "Tab" to navigate to those buttons (and "Shift+Tab" for "Arrow left"). We still need to improve the selection experience since it's not clearly visible which button it is currently selected if you use "Tab". That issue is being tracked in #2559

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HolsteS commented Jun 18, 2020

@jyuwono That is great news as I am able to use Tab as well why not. If both tab and arrow work once a time that would be great as I do believe more users will just try one of those options out and be happy.

@ghost ghost added Needs-Triage For issues raised to be triaged and prioritized by internal Microsoft teams and removed Needs-Author-Feedback The original author of the issue/PR needs to come back and respond to something labels Jun 18, 2020
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jyuwono commented Aug 6, 2020

@HolsteS I just want to let you know that this feature has been added to 0.20 :)

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