Cannot bind keyboard shortcuts to create profiled windows in Terminal

Originator:nivi
Number:rdar://12240866 Date Originated:05-Sep-2012 10:57 PM
Status:Duplicate/4539638 Resolved:
Product:Mac OS X Product Version:OS X 10.8.1, Terminal 2.3
Classification:Enhancement Reproducible:Always
 
Summary:
Due to an unfortunate set of circumstances, it is impossible to bind keyboard shortcuts to create a window of a particular profile in Terminal

Steps to Reproduce:
- Go to the Application Shortcuts section of the Keyboard Shortcuts tab in the Keyboard prefpane in System Preferences
- With reference to what the profiles are called in the 'Shell > New Window' submenu, create a keyboard shortcut for, say 'Silver Aerogel'
- Focus Terminal
- Press your keyboard shortcut

Expected Results:
A new Silver Aerogel window

Actual Results:
Nothing

Notes:
I assume that this problem is due to the fact that there are a bunch of identically named menu entries in the 'Shell > New Tab' submenu. If this is the case, I can completely understand an unwillingness to commit to ambiguous instructions. Still, this is something I do often enough that keyboard shortcuts would really speed things up.

Possible fixes I can think of include:
- Completely redesign the keyboard shortcut assigning system please pretty please
- Provide a mechanism for binding such keyboard shortcuts in Terminal's own preferences

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