https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95410
--- Comment #5 from Luke Kendall <[email protected]> --- I see what you mean. But if the design currently allows a critical shortcut (easily the most important shortcut) to be reused for other functions in other parts of the UI depending on whether they have focus or not, in my opinion that's a major design error. (FWIW, I have about 30 years experience in programming and designing UIs and UI technologies, including working with a lot of HCI people.) I am unaware of any popular applications which reuse the Save shortcut for other functions in the UI. In fact I was unaware of the practice of having a keyboard shortcut (other than Tab/Enter) depend on what UI element has focus: hence the common practice to have many combinations of modifiers (like Alt, Ctrl, Shift, Meta, and even if desperate Alt-left and Alt-right), purely to avoid any duplication of a shortcut key, ever. It's unfortunate, but necessary (IMHO). Keyboard shortcuts are normally "absolute paths" to a single function in the application. Making them context-sensitive is, ah, quite unusual. I suppose if the shortcuts are partitioned into two sets, so that the Alt-shortcuts are context sensitive and the Ctrl-shortcuts are absolute, that might have good arguments in its favour. Anyway, I will be interested to hear what the design team thinks. Cheers! -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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