On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Aliaksei Syrel <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi Ben, >> >> >> This is quite a hidden and implicit key stroke. Regardless that I know >> I've used it before follow a tutorial, I forgot it. Since Spotter has a >> <Settings Icon> (which I like and think it could be pushed as a standard >> throughout the system in Pharo 5), it might be useful for Pharo 4 if the >> Spotter Settings page contains a "How To" or "Keyboard shortcuts" item that >> just contains descriptive text. Or if there is no facility for that, >> perhaps a few of the keyboard shortcuts listed as individual items with >> descriptions, even if you can't change them. I think this will be useful >> for people presented with Spotter for the first time, particularly since >> first use already prompts users to go to settings to send usage data. > > > > Yes, you right, shortcuts were quite hidden. However, after we received a > lot of similar feedback we improved the situation with shortcuts. Now all > actions in Spotter have explicit action buttons: > Cool. When I was looking at a results category down the page, I didn't notice the icon at the top (in the image shown next to 16/16) or in advance understand that it would move if I clicked in the category. I can understand the logic that it indicates which category the shortcut will apply to, however... * I'm not really going to be looking at a graphic UI component when using shortcut. I'll "just know" what it applies to. * To use the shortcut on other than the first category, it takes two actions: mouse-click the category *then* use the shortcut. If the icon appeared on each category, it would only need one action to just click the icon. (After I wrote this I see Sean had a similar issue, so I know its late. but can Pharo 4 get that icon per category, rather than just on the top category?) > > As soon as you press "shift" (you can't not to press shift during usage of > spotter) all action buttons are highlighted explicitly: > Nice feature, but actually I don't notice myself using <Shift> a lot (maybe I am under utilising the shortcuts) so this is catch-22 [1] - the feature may go unnoticed for newbies. Perhaps where the text entry is seeded with "Search", this could accommodate a tip more like "Search - hold shift to show functions/tooltips" [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Catch+22 > > If you hover action button for a few second a hint appears that tells > which shortcut is assigned to an action. If you hover the button while > pressing shift a hint appears immediately: > > Also, in Pharo help there is a good tutorial listing all Spotter shortcuts > and assigned actions: > This is good, but not immediately discoverable. Perhaps a button on the settings page could link to that page? cheers -ben > > On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 2:35 AM, Ben Coman <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks Aliaksei. >> >> This is quite a hidden and implicit key stroke. Regardless that I know >> I've used it before follow a tutorial, I forgot it. Since Spotter has a >> <Settings Icon> (which I like and think it could be pushed as a standard >> throughout the system in Pharo 5), it might be useful for Pharo 4 if the >> Spotter Settings page contains a "How To" or "Keyboard shortcuts" item that >> just contains descriptive text. Or if there is no facility for that, >> perhaps a few of the keyboard shortcuts listed as individual items with >> descriptions, even if you can't change them. I think this will be useful >> for people presented with Spotter for the first time, particularly since >> first use already prompts users to go to settings to send usage data. >> >> cheers -ben >> >> On Sun, Apr 5, 2015 at 8:25 AM, Aliaksei Syrel <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi Ben, >>> >>> It's CMD+Shift+Right >>> On Apr 5, 2015 2:23 AM, "Ben Coman" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Just a note, I went back to an old image and really miss the Spotter >>>> workflow. >>>> >>>> One thing, can you remind me how when it shows 5/30 implementors I get >>>> a list of all 30? I'm sure I've done this before but can't remember. >>>> Perhaps this means its not obvious and maybe should appear in a "How To >>>> Use" section in the Release Notes. >>>> >>>> cheers -ben >>>> >>> >> >
