[BobCratchett]

When in designer, editing the Home Menu, you can't manually enter a action for 'Choose Shortcut'. You either have to use one of the preset items, or first create a favorite and then select that. This is undesirable, having to have multiple favorites to setup Shortcuts.

You can, but it's a little tricky. You have first to create a new item in Home and the choose "Choose shortcut". In this list, choose anything standard like Common>Videos. Because it's not what you want, then Click on "Change Action" scroll to the last item "Custom shortcut". Here you can set your action. I don't know if it's a standard behavior of skinshortcuts or something missing in my code but will ask Bob for this.

The behaviour of the script changed in the latest version so that 'Change action' lets you select any shortcut and change just the action to one of the presest-available shortcuts or type your own. A bug was found at the last minute, though, which meant that there was a possibility that the new menu item wouldn't save (all to do with whether the menu item has a label), so a quick-fix was introduced - if there is no label already set for your menu item, the script actually calls the 'Choose shortcut' button - which means you don't get the option of typing a custom action. (And will be fixed in a future version).

To get the 'Custom shortcut' option so you can type your own action straight away from 'Change action', 'Set label' first.