Bug 52331

Summary:	Usability issue: There is no provision to assign a keyboard shortcut to toolbar icon
Product:	LibreOffice	Reporter:	narayanaras
Component:	Writer	Assignee:	Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	medium	CC:	bfo.bugmail
Version:	3.6.0.1 rc
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	Writer functions are classified in two entirely different ways

Description narayanaras 2012-07-21 04:18:02 UTC

The toolbars of any application provide most of the functionalities of the application. While the toolbar is meant for people who prefer to use mouse, the keyboard shortcuts are meant for power users.

So it would be most intuitive to graduate from a toolbar user to a power user by assigning shortcuts to toolbar icons. But Writer does not allow this.

But neither the Toolbar tab nor the Keyboard tab allows us to assign keyboard shortcuts to toolbar buttons.

See the attached document that explains this usability issue.

Comment 1 narayanaras 2012-07-21 04:24:09 UTC

Created attachment 64479 [details]
Writer functions are classified in two entirely different ways

It is impossible for any user to figure out where he can find a given toolbar button in a totally unfamiliar classification.

First of all, there is no guarantee whether all toolbar buttons are positively covered in the categories. Therefore his search becomes even more doubtful/tentative.

Why make a user struggle like this?

The best approach is to let the user assign a shortcut in the toolbar tab.
That will take care of the possibility that the user has customized the toolbars (added/removed some buttons, or added buttons from one toolbar to another)

Comment 2 bfoman 2013-01-29 18:47:48 UTC

Enhancement request.

If you think that the way it works should be changed, consider contacting UI 
experts available at libreoffice-ux-advise@lists.freedesktop.org.

Comment 3 foss 2013-11-23 18:26:45 UTC

I agree that displaying keyboard shortcuts in LO menu > Tools > Customize > Toolbars would be useful.

Setting to NEW.

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