https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=119002
Bug ID: 119002
Summary: Searchable menu with fuzzy suggestions
Product: LibreOffice
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: UI
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
The menus of the whole suite, particularly Calc, are quite numerous. For
secondary task, i.e., that I perform periodically but not often to have some
muscle memory for them, it often takes a while to find the menu entry to
trigger them (is Filter in View or Data?; where is the Scenario Navigator
again?). This is rendered more problematic with some releases moving menu
entries around.
It would be extremely useful to have a way to search through all the menu
entries using keyboard input, and be offered a short list of the best matches.
Beyond pure text matching, the following scenarios would help tremendously;
taking the example of Calc:
* fuzzy matching: “Navgator” should find View/Navigator
* related matches: “Scenarios” should suggest Tools/Scenarios first, but then
offer the View/Navigator closely behind, as it allows to see existing Scenarios
* keyword/aliases matches: “weight” should suggest the Format/Text/Bold option
allowing to change the font weight
* typeahead completion and filtering: the shortlist of suggestions gets updated
on any new keystroke to best match what was entered.
* finally, a quick keyboard shortcut, the same across all apps, should trigger
this search function, perhaps with a head-up-display for the keyboard entry and
list selection would
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Remember a feature that was accessible through a menu
2. Search for the menu entry
Actual Results:
Spend a lot of time trying to find it, looking at the help, then resorting to
an Internet search, watch a couple of irrelevant YouTube videos showing how to
do entirely different things, search back again in the menus... Maybe find it,
or give up.
Expected Results:
Hit the shortcut, type some part of the name of the remembered menu entry,
selet the right option, hit Enter, done.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: No
Additional Info:
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