On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 21:11 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 13:53 -0600, David Siegel wrote: > > > ...Rich Jones suggested curbing the display of all keyboard > > shortcuts in menus. > > > (https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/493762) > > It does look nicer and is less distracting in all cases where you do not > care about the shortcuts. It's a disaster if you are looking for them. > But what is more common? ;) > > However, simply never showing them would remove one way users can > discover and be reminded of shortcuts. > > > * How would you feel if only the keyboard shortcut for the highlighted > > menu entry (e.g. the menu entry under the cursor) were shown? > > That *might* be a good compromise. Additionally, hitting any meta key > could show them all (not just those with the meta key in question). > > But then you would either need to have all the extra space in the menu, > or extend it once you want to show shortcuts (make menu wider or draw > additional box). > > To be mentioned just for completeness: fade in after a delay. > > > Another possibility would be to draw the shortcuts in another color with > less contrast. >
The less contrast was already suggested and sort of declined in gtk+ https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604315 -- Cheers, Vish _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
