Feature: Custom repository actions & keyboard shortcuts

It would be super lovely if there keyboard shortcuts for the “open” actions, so I could open a project in Windows Terminal or Windows Explorer without using the mouse when a repository is selected. Perhaps something as simple as 1, 2, 3?

Happy to submit a PR for this if it’s something that you see in the vision for your project.

[awaescher]

I thought of this issue in here as I merged the PR from @henriksen as well. Just to make sure we’re talking about the same … I’d thought that the config file to define the “Open in …” actions won’t replace the whole context menu. We should keep the newly merged “Open Solution” area intact. As well as the basic git commands and the possibility to ignore repositories.

The stuff we were talking in here is indeed “Open the directory of a given repository with …”. In the sample file I added the placeholder for the {RepositoryPath}. But we could add more of these repository properties if they are useful. I did just not think of it yet.

Another thing I thought after I merged the PR: For us Windows Devs, *.sln is the most used file in our repositories. But we could also make this part dynamic by adding the possibilities to define the extensions one wants to be included into the menu.

This could be

{
  "name": "Open Visual Studio solutions",
  "extensions":  [  "*.sln"  ]
},
{
  "name": "Open Xcode projects",
  "extensions":  [  "*.xcodeproj"  ]
}

… to have a menu with submenus for the matching files:

We’re going away from the initial simplicity, that’s why I struggle. However, I think the features could be very useful if the defaults are chosen wisely, like 2-3 default “Open in …” actions and the “Open Visual Studio solutions” sub menu.

[awaescher]

I started to implement this feature a few days ago. Here’s the task list I’m working with.

• Define json files → see RepoZ-RepositoryActions
• Deploy default configuration
• Build the context menu from json file
• Show the customization possibilities in the UI
• Handle & show json parser errors
• Implement keyboard shortcuts
• Translatable actions

(Please note that I only work on it from time to time, so progress can be slow)