There are lots of times this would be useful, but if you have a large amount of text in which you hilights separate words with a color (or alternating colors), it is very quick to dart about with the mouse, double-clicking the words. The words are usually quite close, and jumping down to the palette...

tylerdurden wrote:I can see the value of the keystroke access.

I'd check into custom mapping.

That would be my wish, but the keys file didn't include an example of this, and I couldn't find documentation of all supported actions.

I'm distressed because I could be working much more effectively - I hope you are not ONLY using the mouse and not a single keyboard shortcut?

I can bind a keyboard shortcut to an extension, but I just thought that I should mention why I don't think that would be good idea.

Creating an extension would be one solution, but I think that the whole SVG file has to be filtered through the script?
I guess I wouldn't want to do that with a large file a couple of times per second.

The problem with that is that I get more formatting than just color.
And it gets harder when you have two alternating colors.

When typing a lot of text with both hands on the keyboard, it would be a lot faster to just select the previously typed word and use a shortcut. Also when going through this and that object and setting two alternating colors, it takes a long time jump up and down to the palette all the time. Custom ...

Hi, Is it possible to bind a keyboard shortcut for "Set fill to solid #123456" or "Set Stroke Paint to Palette #1"? I looked in /usr/share/inkscape/keys, but couldn't find an example of this there. This would be very nice for documentation for example, where we have just a few co...