thank you! .. for its you, the users, that keep this project going at 
the pace it is going.

Regarding the F1 key. I just had a look at my iBook G3 and noticed 
you'd usually have to press fn + F1 to get the actual F1 key, whereas 
it is "decrease brightness" by default.

I don't know how exactly this is handled by the system, but chances 
they're handled the same way as the volume and eject keys. For them, 
the events they trigger are not passed to any app at all. They are 
posted to the "HID layer", but not converted to any actual keypress. 
The mouse, the Apple Remote, joysticks, etc. are all also posting to 
this layer. Apple once provided sample code for the emulation of 
these "multimedia" keys, but, 2 major OS upgrades later, that codes 
seems to be broken as it does no longer work ;-)

So, to put a long story short: these "multimedia" keys are probably 
never going to work through the hotkey functions.

Also thanks for sharing your ideas on how such a list could be 
shortened. The ideas on what an actual behaviour and its actions for 
the screen could look like are shaping up in my mind :-)

I can't make any promise on the timing of such behaviour / actions, 
but it's something I'll definately add.

Thanks for sharing all the thoughts!

Best regards, 
Felix