2011/4/23 planas <[email protected]>: > On Fri, 2011-04-22 at 16:54 +0200, RGB ES wrote: > >> 2011/4/22 Vamsi Kodali <[email protected]>: >> >> I'm thinking now on something more "complex", a sort of evolution from >> >> ComposeSpecialCharacter extension that can be called QuickSymbol: >> >> suppose a menu where you can select your more used symbols, put them >> >> on a table and assign to them an "alias", something like b for β, etc. >> >> Now, suppose that this QuickSymbol have a keyboard shortcut assigned, >> >> something like Alt+C: then, if you in the text type b and them press >> >> Alt+C the b is replaced by β. The main advantage from Compose... is, >> >> clearly, the ability to choose your own preferred symbols and to >> >> choose your preferred alias, so you do not need to rely on a >> >> predefined and not possible to edit replacement table full of symbols >> >> that you probably do not need. >> >> What do your think? >> > >> > Your idea is definitely more quicker than going to a menu and clicking on >> > buttons. In fact, my current workaround to insert frequently used symbols >> > quickly into a text is by utilizing the AutoCorrect options. The >> > ComposeSpecialCharacter and QuickSymbol approaches, although more >> > specialized, sound similar to the AutoCorrect method. >> > >> > But the problem with those approaches is that the user is required to >> > remember shortcuts and these features may be a little hard to discover. We >> > still keep the Cut/Copy/Paste/Undo/Redo buttons in spite of their >> > popularity, right? >> > >> >> Right ;) But that does not means we do not have keyboard shortcuts. >> Maybe the ideal situation would be to implement both aspect: an easy >> symbol menu and an easy "insert my preferred symbols" method. >> Cheers >> Ricardo >> > > What if allow the user assign the shortcut, may be they have to use Alt > instead of Ctrl? The assignment is made by what mnemonic method the user > wants to use, if they want to use any. I tend to use a few shortcuts > myself but others love them. This avoids have preassigned shortcuts the > user may hate. > -- > Jay Lozier > [email protected] >
Of course! I just named Alt+C as an example (that's the shortcut I use for Compose... extension) Cheers Ricardo -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to [email protected] Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/www/design/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
