ReDo last button

Hello! o)

Following situation happens a lot..

You select files, you choose one of the many button menus you created over the years, navigate down that menu, select another submenu, maybe another one and finally select a button to run that function.
Now you select another bunch of files for which you would like to run the same button and realize, oh man, now I have to navigate all the way down to that button again and again for each selection I am going to do until I am done with all the files (navigating folders up/down in between e.g.).

So, it seems a "last button"-command would be great. We could assign a hotkey or use a regular button to run the one repeatedly which was hard to reach the first time. Photoshop has a ReDo for "Last Filter" and Excel also has it, though it's more of a ReDo for any action. In Excel I use it to insert many rows, skipping the weird builtin or non-existing hotkey. Not sure if repeating any action makes sense in DO, but repeating a simple button would work wonders for me o).

It would save a lot of clicks and also prevent the annoying precision for navigating a specific menu and x sub-layers each time. Having commands/buttons for "recording" would work too (hit a record button with right mouse for "record", then choose regular function button from somewhere deep in the menus and next time I simply use one of the easily accessible "record"-buttons with left click. A recorded button could change its name to reflect "the link", but keep its "Record" icon. You get the idea? o)

What do you think? o) Thank you. o)

Some examples of menus I navigate through repeatedly, lots of submenus..
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Maybe a list/menu of recent actions would be even better? Then you could choose more than the very last one, and could be sure which one you're about to repeat (since lots of actions you might not think about ultimately come from buttons or hotkeys, which might replace the last action unexpectedly).

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I'd say it's time to retire the good old VGA monitor and get something bigger, so you can flatten the menu structure :wink:

A three-clicks-max system works fine for me.

@Leo
Yes, a list is another good idea and would work quite similar to a redo-button, but not sure exactly..

When thinking some more, a simple redo-button or list might not reflect real-life exactly, as I might run 0-3 different actions in between the "deep nested action". The list would fill with actions I don't want there and a redo-button would end up repeating the rename or something I did last and not the "deep nested action" I actually want to have available more easily.

We could try with the list.. if that does not work out, let's have the record-button.. o)

@lxp
I'm on 1920x1200, font-size 8pt or something, there is room for vertically large menus, but not on every setup of mine and I actually like the submenus, they look tidy. o) Three-clicks-max = surely okay, but a hundred times? o)