There is no one “Mac Way”. There is the way the Mac operates for a novice. That is entirely left clicks on icons. There is the way the Mac operates for someon

There is no one “Mac Way”. There is the way the Mac operates for a novice. That is entirely left clicks on icons. There is the way the Mac operates for someone like me, who has been using them since the days of Classic. That is full of hotkeys and advanced features discovered over the years. A hotkey to invoke a filter would be entirely in the scope of this Way of the Mac. (And the filter would also probably be implemented as a “search” field somehow connected to the tab bar, for the novices to discover it.) The Mac Way includes things like Automator (or whatever they're calling the current incarnation of their attempts to make generating simple scripts a point-and-click task). The Mac Way includes the Keyboard panel in the prefs, which lets you change the menu hotkeys of any app on your machine.