element-hq / element-hq/element-call
Make reactions harder to trigger from the keyboard
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Description
### Your use case
#### What would you like to do?
Make it harder for users to accidentally send a reaction via key press
#### Why would you like to do it?
This is problematic because heavy keyboard shortcut users also use number keys to do things like switch tabs, resulting accidental presses.
#### How would you like to achieve it?
One option might be to just pop up a reaction picker on key press, a bit similar to EW's reaction selection system. We could a Ctrl+K-style finder interface for them to quickly then send the right reaction through key press. E.g. Ctrl+? -> "+1" to send a 👍 .
### Have you considered any alternatives?
Adding a modifier key to the number combo could also work, but doesn't help another bug; the reaction number system only lets you send a set number of reactions from key press.
### Additional context
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