There's no way to save and reload them, and they are not saved as part of workspaces, or anywhere else that have found. This means when installing on a new computer, there's no way to transfer them. And there's no way to restore them after they're forgotten.
And they're frequently forgotten.
They are forgotten if you load a workspace.
They are forgotten when you install a new version.
They are forgotten if PSP dies uncleanly. Eg system crashes, or I shutdown and let Windows close PSP (which I do because it's the only quick way to restore images I've pasted into PSP but not saved to files yet).
How is the latter even possible? On a good day, hotkeys are remembered between sessions, so they are clearly stored on disk. So if it crashes, how is it losing the keyboard shortcuts stored on disk? But somehow it does.
Due to all this, it's pretty much a waste of time setting up more than one or two shortcuts. I have just two, which I frequently have to set up again.
ALSO, setting up keyboard shortcuts could be improved. Currently this is what happens:
- I find the item I want a shortcut for
- I enter a key
- It tells me it's already in use
- At this stage I should be able to replace the existing shortcut if I want, but I can't
- Or I should be able to unassign the key I want to use, but I can't
- Or at least I should be able to jump to the place where it's assigned, but I can't
- Instead, I have to go find where the key I want is assigned. Search manually through menus in the tiny scrollbox, hoping to find it. Eventually I find it, and can finally unassign it
- Then I have to look through the menus again to find where I was before, so that I can finally assign the key to it
- Once I find it, I can't even just hit "Assign", even though the key I want to use is already showing in the box from before (the "Assign" button is disabled). Instead I have to click in that box again and re-type the key. Then finally the "Assign" button activates and I can assign my key
