Feature request: add a "Preferences" option to Edit menu, with keyboard shortcuts and colour palettes to be among the things you can change

[fusion809]

Hi,

It'd be great if there was a "Preferences" item in the "Edit" menu that would launch a popup wherein you could edit, among other things, keyboard shortcuts used by Avogadro 2. Like I'd like to set Ctrl+Shift+A as the shortcut for "Save As".

The option to set a custom colour palette for the elements (e.g. black for carbon would be one I'd set pretty quickly) and background in a Preferences popup would also be helpful. Like the palette would have a set of defaults that come with the program (e.g. the grey for carbon, white for hydrogen, blue for nitrogen, etc. that Avogadro 2 uses by default), but you, the user, could customize the colour of each element to match your own preferences.

It'd be lovely if these preferences (shortcuts + colour + w/e else you's decide to add to it) could be saved so that when you open Avogadro 2 later you don't have to fiddle with them again, although a "Return to defaults" option would also be handy (which would reset the palette to the defaults the Avogadro 2 program came with).

I know in Avogadro 1, at least, you could set element colour but I think it is overly complicated having to fiddle with selections and display types options to change element colours when it could be simplified by a colour palette in a Preferences popup. This is a feature I know that Accelrys Discovery Studio Visualizer has and I, for one, quite like it.

Thanks for your time and patience,
Brenton

[ovari]

The User Interface Language could also be added to the Preferences.

[Flying-Pegasus]

@ghutchis is this issue still open to work upon?

[ghutchis]

@Flying-Pegasus - somewhat. I know that @matterhorn103 is interested in working on it. Please see the forum:
https://discuss.avogadro.cc/t/settings-preferences-menu/5175/11