Very well said. In agreement with you.
--- Daniel Lohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Abdelrazak Younes wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> I read the complaing page for LyX > >> > >> http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/Complaints > >> > >> where at the end someone complained about "no > simple keyboard > >> bindings". I'm afraid I don't understand that bit > - I personally never > >> found the keyboard shortcuts difficult to use. > >> > >> I therefore thought it might be a good idea to > start a thread on this > >> topic. So could you tell about problems you have > related to keyboard > >> shortcuts? > > > > I guess people (incuding me) wants a point and > click way to do that. > > Maybe you can add this item to the GSoc page? > > > I can see the point on point, but not on click :-) > > No, seriously. I personally think that LyX is quite > well usable via the > keyboard, point is just that most shortcuts are not > obvious. Studying > the bind-files was a real eye-opener for me! (For > instance, the > possibility to switch the paragraph styles by > Alt+P,<key>) However, one > needs at least a bit of hacker attitude to find, > read and understand > bind-files. ("What the heck is META?" "How can I > find the shortcut for > this-and-that toolbar button?" etc.) > > So the problem is not availability of shortcuts, it > is making users > aware of them. This is a question of documentation > and the willingness > to read it, of course. Nevertheless I really liked > the M$-approach of > providing this kind of information "on demand". > Whenever the mouse > *points* on a toolbar button or menu entry, a > tool-tip (or status bar > message) indicating the corresponding keyboard > shortcuts appears. > Thereby I quickly learned the keyboard shortcuts for > exactly those > functions I am using most frequently, without having > to look them up > between hundreds of other shortcuts in some list or > even a bind-file. > > It would be really cool to have something like that > in LyX! I imagine it > as even not too difficult to implement, even though > I am walking on > really thin ice here: AFAIU everything in the GUI is > bound to some > LyxFunction -- so are keyboard shortcuts. Hence, it > should be possible > to implement a generic way to find and display all > related keyboard > shortcuts of some GUI element via the LyxFunction. > > > Daniel > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on www.Answers.yahoo.com
