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Add keyboard shortcuts for Raise/Lower Selection

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For quickly fixing the z-order of overlapping nodes, it would be nice to have keyboard shortcuts for Raise/Lower Selection menu entries.

One option is to use Home and End keys to do that. It is consistent with how Inkscape lets reorder objects.

Here is a patch file that makes it work:

--- DocumentsUi.properties.old    2021-03-15 21:15:26.000000000 +0200
+++ DocumentsUi.properties    2022-12-09 20:11:45.000000000 +0200
@@ -195,19 +195,19 @@
 history.mnemonic=
 history.smallIcon=16:com/yworks/yfx/resource/svg/recent.svg
 history.tooltip=Recent files
 
 LowerSelectionAction.name=Lower Selection
 LowerSelectionAction.mnemonic=
-LowerSelectionAction.accelerator=
+LowerSelectionAction.accelerator=\!END
 LowerSelectionAction.smallIcon=16:com/yworks/yfx/resource/svg/lower_selection.svg
 LowerSelectionAction.tooltip=Display selected elements behind all other elements
 
 RaiseSelectionAction.name=Raise Selection
 RaiseSelectionAction.mnemonic=
-RaiseSelectionAction.accelerator=
+RaiseSelectionAction.accelerator=\!HOME
 RaiseSelectionAction.smallIcon=16:com/yworks/yfx/resource/svg/raise_selection.svg
 RaiseSelectionAction.tooltip=Display selected elements on top of all other elements
 
 #MimeType automatic
 MimeType.Automatic.description=Automatic
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