Shortcuts were defined in four places that drifted apart: per-action IPC channel
pairs, a hand-written VK table in the service, a second one in the renderer, and
three copies of the keycap styling. Adding an action meant editing all of them,
so two shortcuts stayed hardcoded in bootstrap and one had no settings entry at
all.
packages/core/src/keybinding.ts is now the single source for the binding type,
the selectable key catalog, the action catalog, normalization, validation,
conflict detection, display labels, search and deserialization. Main, preload
and renderer all read from it; nothing redefines keys or rules locally.
- Each action holds a list of bindings instead of one. AppConfig's four
*Shortcut fields collapse into a single keyBindings map, migrated on launch.
- Mouse buttons can be bound. Left click is refused, right/middle need a
modifier, side buttons are free. uiohook cannot swallow events, so the
original click still fires and the UI says so.
- Keys can be picked from a grouped dropdown with a search box, not only by
recording a keypress.
- HOTKEY's 14 channels become KEYBINDING's 9, taking the action as a parameter,
so actions no longer multiply channels. The history and command popups moved
out of bootstrap into ordinary actions.
- displayLabel is gone; labels derive from the binding and follow the app
language and platform.
Fixes found on the way:
- Double-press hands-free was unreachable: lookup returned only the first
matching action, and dictation shares its default binding.
- Reserved-combination checks compared joined key names, so a different modifier
order let Ctrl+C through.
- Disabling shortcuts released every global registration in the process,
including the popup ones, and never restored them.
- Enabling shortcuts after starting disabled left nothing registered.
- The dashboard stored the caption event payload instead of the state in it.
Several desktop paths quietly substituted defaults or partial results: a
config write could fall back to a throwaway in-memory store, speech provider
errors were absorbed into empty transcriptions, and meeting exports built
file names from raw titles.
Writes now fail explicitly when the store is unavailable, provider and model
failures reach the UI as errors, and export names pass through one
sanitizer. Settings, license, ad, and support surfaces use the shared theme
tokens, unused hotkey helpers are gone, and the package gains strict
node/renderer typecheck configs plus red-team e2e scenarios for these flows.