On 14.12.10 15:52:39, Ingo Klöcker wrote: > On Tuesday 14 December 2010, David Jarvie wrote: > > On Monday 13 December 2010 20:32:30 Albert Astals Cid wrote: > > > 5. There is no space to show the shortcut (i.e. Ctrl+C for Copy) > > > > IMO, this is a very important drawback. There would then be no easy > > way for users who didn't know the keyboard shortcut for these > > actions to discover it. > > Is this really a serious problem? Looking up a shortcut is really easy > via Settings->Configure Shortcuts and it's not as if all of our
Thats not "easy" thats cumbersome. Especially with bigger plugin-based apps that have a few dozen shortcuts. > shortcuts where "documented" in some menu anyway. Probably half of > KMail's shortcuts do not correspond to any menu entries (but of course > KMail is a bit special). And in Konqueror I had to lookup the shortcut > for Force Reload under Configure Shortcuts. > > A third argument against is that people using the menu will most likely > continue doing so. I disagree. If I approach a new app the menu is what helps me find my way to the things I need. At the same time I'm able to learn the shortcuts easily so at some point I'm using the shortcuts more and more instead of the menu. In particular I can learn the shortcut while doing the work, instead of sitting down and staring at the configure-shortcuts dialog for an hour. You're right though for people not willing/used to use shortcuts, those will always go through the menu no matter how often they read or get told about the shortcut. Andreas -- A day for firm decisions!!!!! Or is it?