Because of issue MC-3643, when I Command-Tab back to Minecraft, if I press a number key, instead of selecting that entry in the hotbar, it saves my current hotbar to that number key.
Before this saving hotbar feature, the fact that modifiers would get stuck on was a minor annoyance. It would only really have any major effect when in chat and would never cause any irreversible action.
But now that Command+Number has meaning, this has become a serious usability problem, because it now can cause serious disruption to workflow by wrecking carefully-organized saved toolbars.
I suggest either (a) actually fixing MC-3643, or (b) choosing another modifier key for the "save" feature. Instead of Command, for instance, you could make it the Alt/Option key. This would once again mask this stuck modifier bug and stop wrecking saved hotbars.
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NarcolepticFrog on Reddit said this:
"An alternative solution that would work well for me would be to allow us to lock specific hotbars (maybe in the creative mode inventory UI). Even without the stuck command key bug, I have occasionally overwritten a hotbar by accident."
Another user GrammarStaatspolizei said this:
"I am hoping that the save key will be editable in controls, as well as the load key, when the finished version is released."
I agree that editable keybindings and the ability to lock entries in a menu would be nice features to have and would also help work around the stuck modifier key bug, which wouldn't have come up again if Command+Number hadn't been assigned this meaning.
I just noticed that the "meta keys" to save and load hotbars have been moved to X and C by default.
There are multiple ways in which this is better than my suggestion. The main thing is that Ctrl or Command + C is usually used to mean "copy," so this is easy to remember. (I'm am little surprised that restore isn't assigned to V by default by analogy to Ctrl or Command + V for paste, but if I really really cared, I could change it.)
Anyhow, this fixes a usability problem that really bothered me, so thank you! YOU GUYS TOTALLY ROCK.
This bug is so annoying, I would rather that the feature just not exist in the game. Doing without the ability to save hotbars would be preferable to having my number keys constantly doing something other than selecting the hotbar entry that I want to select. Seriously, try using this on a Mac it'll drive you nuts.