Disabling All Keyboard Shortcuts?

[Chris Kern]

Is there a way to disable all keyboard shortcuts in Lightroom 4.X?  I'm using LR on OS X, if that matters.  I can't find anything definitive, one way or t'other, in the Adobe documentation or with a Google search.

I'm aware many (probably most) LR users consider keyboard shortcuts to be great time-savers.  No doubt someone will feel the urge to advise me that instead of fighting the program I ought to become accustomed to using it the way its designers intended.  All I can say in my own pitiful defense is that I'm an old dog who is perhaps too stubbornly averse to learning new tricks.  Or, if you prefer a slightly technical explanation, I've been running UNIX with a graphical user agent since the Sun BSD days and I have deeply-ingrained reflexes which keep whispering in my virtual ear that focus should follow mouse position without the need for clicking in a window or field—so the keyboard shortcuts are constantly tripping me up.

[donbga]

So why ate you touching the key board while using LR?   

[Tony Jay]

So why are you touching the keyboard while using LR?   

Chris I have to agree with this.

Tony Jay

[Chris Kern]

So why ate you touching the key board while using LR?   

To add alpha strings to metadata in Library module.

[kaelaria]

So you want to reinvent the wheel, simply because you don't want can't remember to make a *single* click in the metadata field before you start typing?  Yeah, um...never mind...I don't want  to be banned

[Chris Kern]

So you want to reinvent the wheel, simply because you don't want can't remember to make a *single* click in the metadata field before you start typing?

Actually, no.  I'm content if nothing happens when I start to type and focus isn't where I want it.  All the window managers I use except X unfortunately behave that way.*  I would just like to prevent the LR user agent from interpreting my attempts to type in a metadata field as a command (or sequence of commands) to change its behavior, if there's some way to accomplish that.  The alpha keys are overloaded in LR.  In some contexts, they are used to insert text, in others to modify the appearance of the user agent.  I haven't been able to discover a way to restrict them to the insert-text function, which I why I posted my query.  It occurred to me that perhaps someone more knowledgeable about the product than I am might know of a way to coax it into doing what I wanted—perhaps even an undocumented one.
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*The X Window system can be configured so that focus follows the pointer.  Or not.  Top-window behavior can also be configured to follow focus.  Or not.  Moreover, these characteristics are independent of each other.  I believe offering the end-user this kind of configurability is The Right Thing to Do.  But that's a subject for a different discussion in a different forum.

[johnbeardy]

It's a waste of time trying to customize Lightoom in this way. At most you could try hacking a copy of one of the main translation files and changing the control codes for the shortcuts, but I'm not sure that this method will work. Better to learn to appreciate the value of keyboard shortcuts....

[Simon Garrett]

I generally use the keyboard shortcuts, but the OP has a point.  There's a strong divergence among people that like to use keyboard shortcuts, those that like mouse operations and those that like menu commands.  Often there are 2 or 3 ways of doing the same thing, and most people just learn the style they like. 

Also, it's quite clear that some people get very confused by accidentally using keyboard shortcuts they didn't know existed.  Look at all the cries for help especially on the http://forums.adobe.com/community/lightroom forum:  "Where's my toolbar gone?"  "Where have the menus gone?"  Personally, I don't have a problem with an option to selectively disable keyboard shortcuts, if Adobe find enough demand for it. 

[donbga]

And then there is this:

https://sites.google.com/site/dorfl68/