On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 11:51 PM, Mathias Bauer <nospamfor...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Now an interesting question: shall we also have "MOD3" in the keyboard > configration dialog that I currently "enhanced" to support "MOD2". I did > not enable multiple modifiers like "MOD1+MOD2" as I was afraid that the > list could become too large. I'm afraid that the list is large enough even now. My idea is to have something like this [1]. Explained in words: - do not list all possible shortcuts (as this is misleading, because some of these shortcuts can't be used on some platforms, Mac OS X example and > F8, etc.), list is huge a no one is willing to go through it, - it's easier to select category, function and click on Assign (Modify) button, small, very simple dialog appears and user can press keys combination, which will be interpreted and displayed, if user agrees, he can click ok to save it or cancel [1] http://idisk.mac.com/rvojta-Public/OO.o/ideas/tools-customize.jpg [2] http://idisk.mac.com/rvojta-Public/OO.o/ideas/capture-keys.jpg Or another idea. Can be something like intermediate step. Do not list all possible combinations, but only main available keys like F1, A, B, arrows, ... And put checkboxes [ ] Ctrl, [ ] Alt, [ ] Cmd on the right side of this list. User can easily compose any shortcut combination. Replace [2] with [3]. [3] http://idisk.mac.com/rvojta-Public/OO.o/ideas/define-keys.jpg The prior idea is better, but it needs more time to implement it. The second one is something like intermediate step, but it is definitely better than the table with list of all possible shortcut combinations. Or combination of these dialogs in one. Just my idea. > This would be even more judged by MOD3-support as then we have 3 > combinations of two modifier keys plus the same number of combinations > with an additional SHIFT key. Agree, as I said, I think that the list is very long even now and another solution should be selected. > I left out the possibility for pressing > three modifiers at once, I even don't know if that is supported by the > keyboards. :-) Yes, it is possible. On Mac, it's not rare. You can use shortcuts like Option-Shift-Cmd-V, etc. You need more than 10 fingers sometimes, but these kind of shortcuts are here ;-) > What do you think? Should I allow combinations? All 6 of it? It wouldn't > be more effort than just writing the table of keys (more or less some > C&P and editing), but I wonder if having such large tabel makes sense. But because there are limited resources to implement all ideas around, something should be selected. The current table is quite huge and I think that no one will be surprised if it will be "slightly" bigger. I think you can introduce all combinations. New combinations should be added at the end of this list, so, user will see well known combinations and new combinations below. It doesn't hurt and people who wants to use more polished shortcuts will be able to do it. Regards, -- Robert Vojta --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@gsl.openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@gsl.openoffice.org
