https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=153335
Bug ID: 153335
Summary: Establishing a keyboard shortcut is doubly
counter-intuitive
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 7.4.5.1 release
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: medium
Component: Writer
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Description:
When setting up a keyboard shortcut I expect to select the action (that which
the shortcut will achieve) and then assign the shortcut. It turns out (I had to
ask on the forum) that what one must do is first select the keyboard shortcut -
from a very long list of shortcuts - and then click . . 'modify' (that latter,
I think, even if the shortcut is assigned to nothing at present). Hence 'doubly
counter-intuitive'. Compare e.g. Linux Mint's way of assigning system-wide
keyboard shortcuts - which I never liked, but it does not have things backwards
(it solicits the action first) and it does not ask one to 'modify' something
non-existent.
I file this bug under 'Writer' but I think it affects all LibreOffice
applications (and/but I found no way on Bugzilla of conveying that).
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Realise that the 'customize' menu option is what one wants for keyboards
shortcuts, and click it.
2. Select the function one wants to assign to a key.
3. Try vainly to get a key press to appear in the 'keys' field.
Actual Results:
Confusion. Frustration.
Expected Results:
Establishing a keyboard shortcut. Even Microsoft _Word_ (if I may say so) is
better in this regard.
Reproducible: Always
User Profile Reset: Yes
Additional Info:
The software should solicit the function first - and do so clearly (for, I
_thought_, falsely, that it _was_ doing that) - and then solicit the keyboard
shortcut and then solicit confirmation via a button less confusing that one
labelled 'modify'.
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