Comment/suggestion : about the "Ignore author" field in the citation dialog options and the keyboard

Masca
Hello,

I recently updated to Zotero 7 (for whatever reason, automatic updates were disabled) and loved it. Thanks for the work.
However, I noticed a minor change that is bothering me : the "Ignore author" field, that is supposed to be ticked, used to be navigable via keyboard (through the Tab key) and ticked with the spacebar, because the Enter key would just send the request, close the citation dialog altogether and insert the whole citation(s). This is not the case anymore, as both the spacebar and the Enter key tick the box.

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u4492022/wq3606ldx0fclusge8xp.png

I admit it is indeed more intuitive (just as it is very much more intuitive and convenient to navigate to the option box via Arrow-down only rather than Ctrl+Arrow-down). However, it now adds a step to validate the citation. It's not the end of the world, but over hundreds of entries, it can be bothersome. I wish there was a way to get the old way back, but I understand it should not be done if it undermines the improvement in affordance.

My suggestion is to implement a Ctrl+Enter shortcut that would behave as the old Enter (send the whole request).

Regards,
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