On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 14:16 -0400, Maris Fogels wrote: > On 06/08/2010 01:11 PM, Adi Roiban wrote: > > We can add a list of keybindings on help.lp.net/Translations but it > > would be nice to automatically inform or hint translators about the > > available translations. > > > > We can underline the letter, or put them KEY in brackets, but not all > > actions have an associated text. > > Exemple: Shift+Alt+C - copy original text. > > > > It looks like most webapps don't provide a visual clue for their > > shortcuts, but rather document them on the help page. > > > > This is bug: > > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/rosetta/+bug/591358 > > > > Do you know how can we implement such clues in Launchpad? > > > > Many thanks! > > > > Hi Adi, > > That is a really interesting idea. One of the most successful examples of > keyboard shortcut use I have seen is the Gmail interface. They have a number > of > useful designs, such as pressing '?' to get the help overlay, and a helpful > link > near the bottom of every page that says 'Work faster with Keyboard Shortcuts'.
Pressing MODIFIERS+? to display a modal window could be a good solution for reminding users about the available keyboard shortcuts. Still, how will users know that pressing "?" will show them the help page / window / div, on their first access ? Also, the GMail help page shows a big list of shortcuts and is not that easy to search it. For example I would like to know the shortcut for "Send email" button, so when pressing "?" I prefer to see a visual hint around/near the "send email" button/link. I remember seeing a similar implementation in Opera and previous Gmail versions. Something like this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/174543/lp-translations-pofile-message-with-error-translator-shortcut-hints.png I think that 'Work faster with Keyboard Shortcuts' in Gmail is just a random "tip of the 5minutes" and not necessarily dedicated to keyboard shortcuts. > Gmail also don't bother with key modifiers, just plain old character keys > like > 'n' and '#'. I have seen these single-key shortcuts criticized as > "non-standard, against all convention" but IMHO they work well enough to > overcome any such objection. As noted in the initial email, simple keys are wonderful as long as the focus is outside of a textarea or text input field. In Launchpad Translations the focus will be most of the time on the "new translation" input text field. Many thanks for our feedback! -- Adi Roiban _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
