Drawing upon the discussion surrounding the bug "Underline under accelerator characters in buttons and menu bar should only show when Alt is pressed"*, Rich Jones suggested curbing the display of all keyboard shortcuts in menus. At first, I thought this was a ludicrous suggestion, but then I took a look at the mockups Rich attached to his bug report (https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/493762) and I found that the menus seemed significantly easier to use! Rich's mockup opened my eyes to how cluttered and complex menus are when so many esoteric keyboard shortcuts are listed--most which are seldom used. I thought this wild suggestion deserved at least some discussion (and maybe some user testing).
* Does anyone know how to configure Gtk to hide keyboard shortcuts in menus? * How would you feel if only the keyboard shortcut for the highlighted menu entry (e.g. the menu entry under the cursor) were shown? David * https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/403691 _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
