https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98333

--- Comment #14 from Yousuf (Jay) Philips <philip...@hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Eike Rathke from comment #11)
> Shift+Ctrl+Anything requires two hands to hit. Using that for something
> basic and outstanding as the Stylist or Navigator is an un-usability.

We have many common shortcut that require two hands to hit that are even more
basic than stylist or navigator, e.g. Ctrl + P (Print), Ctrl + O (Open), Ctrl +
N (New). On Mac, users have to use two hands to hit any of the Function keys,
as they have to press the Fn key as well.

> Additionally, both features are something that other office suites don't
> offer and that help to organize the document and its formatting, 

MS Office has both a stylist
(http://www.addbalance.com/usersguide/images/stylesFPane2010.gif) and navigator
(http://www.dkszone.net/editing-in-ms-word-2010-simplified-with), though not as
powerful/extensive as the one found in LO. Both of these tools are useful for
those who utilize them.

> users of
> some other suite don't even know styles or the possibilities the Navigator
> offers. Easy accessibility is a key to promote these further.

Particular users of all office suites dont know/use styles and having a stylist
in LO wont change that behaviour. There are users who use styles (normally more
advanced users) and users who dont use styles (normally less advanced users)
and that wont ever change unless direct formatting is completely eliminated. In
the same way, we have users who may use the Navigator (advanced users) and
users who likely wont (non-advanced users).

We should make the stylist and navigator available to those who use it, but we
should avoid assigning them to shortcut keys that are an OS standard for
something else in order to improve LO integrate with those OSes and reduce the
learning curve for users. Imagine what users would say if we has assigned Ctrl
+ Z to anything else but undo.

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