Unintentional triggering of keyboard shortcuts

User persona context:

I am not a huge keyboard shortcuts user, I use some, adopt slowly, and like to customise when I need to to make it easier to use the shortcuts I care about and avoid accidentally triggering the ones I don’t.

Issue summary:

What I am finding annoying about shortcuts in Figma is that is that ones I am not interested in a given moment are they are too easily triggered (because they don’t require an additional key like shift etc.) and I can’t customise them. 

Issue example: One way in which this is causes issues for me is if I am selecting an option from a dropdown e.g.:

• When I am selecting a variant property value. If I have a lot of options I usually start to type the letter of the option to jump to it. This works great if the key I am using doesn’t overlap with a Figma determined keyboard shortcut, but if it does, the shortcut is triggered for some action e.g. frame, slice etc. 

Possible solution approaches:

1. Allow customisation of Figma keyboard shortcuts within Figma → 
   • Pros
     • Provides a way for users to solve this issue
     • Addresses the strong desire of many users for shortcut customisation
   • Cons
     • Requires user to implement a workaround to solve which may disrupt there current use of shortcuts
2. Ensure shortcuts don’t trigger when you have a dropdown menu open, unless they relate to that menu →
   • Pros
     • Automatically solves issue without any action required by users
     • doesn’t disrupt other users’ current use of shortcuts 
   • Cons:
     • only solves this specific issue, while solution 1) would solve other user issues/requests as well​​​​​​​
3. Make shortcuts more difficult to trigger by ensuring all letter based shortcuts always require an additional key e.g. shift →
   • Pros
     • Automatically solves issue without any action required by users
   • Cons
     • Disrupts users’ current use of shortcuts