Summary: | Usability issue: The GUI for assigning keyboard shortcuts to functions is not intuitive. | ||
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Product: | LibreOffice | Reporter: | narayanaras |
Component: | UI | Assignee: | Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs> |
Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | Jorendc <jorendc> |
Severity: | enhancement | ||
Priority: | medium | CC: | bfo.bugmail, stanislav.horacek, thomas.mitterfellner |
Version: | 3.6.0.1 rc | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
See Also: | https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34564 | ||
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i915 platform: | i915 features: | ||
Attachments: |
Shows re-designed GUI for assigning shortcuts
Presentation on the problem and solution |
Description
narayanaras
2012-07-21 09:08:02 UTC
Created attachment 64483 [details]
Shows re-designed GUI for assigning shortcuts
Note that this design automatically forces the user to follow a linear workflow.
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. I do agree this could be improved. Therefore mark it as new. I also tried to find any duplicates, but can't find any (so far). Thanks for reporting! Joren Created attachment 97033 [details]
Presentation on the problem and solution
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If there should ever be an initiative of improving usability in LO, this should be one of the first to be worked on because the way it is now is close to ununsable (I tried to assign CTRL+# to subscript – it's not even possible). Let me add one feature request to the proposed solution to boost usability: the functions should be searchable, i.e. a filter should be applicable so that only functions matching the filter are shown. Thus, add a Category 'All' containing all of the available functions and add a search field above the Function container. As you type characters into the filter, the Function list's items thin out to match only the filter criterion. This way the user can find the functions he want to assign shortcuts to much more quickly. Actually the best solution for shortcut assignment I have ever come across is in the Eclipse IDE: http://www.eclipseonetips.com/2010/02/03/how-to-manage-keyboard-shortcuts-in-eclipse/ Please take the time to watch the video there to see the optimum solution in keyboard shortcuts handling or even better: try it in Eclipse for yourself. |
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