Krzysztof Foltman wrote:
I wrote this mail responding to reaction for my suggestion about how to
make DevHelp more usable for keyboard users.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=118358
Because there was no significant usability-wise progress in DevHelp
since 2003, I'll try to give some reasoning behind why and how I think
it may (and should) be improved.
...
6. Summary
To sum things up, all the proposed solutions have a potential to make
DevHelp more friendly to keyboard-oriented users in numerous ways:
- reducing unnecessary hand movement, by making the most used
functionality available instantly at cost of functionality used less
often or not at all
- keeping things simple and internally consistent (just a few very
standard keys: arrows, Enter, Esc and seldom Ctrl+Tab and Alt with
arrows, to access the WHOLE existing functionality!)
- allowing keyboard-only operation
It doesn't solve the already existing problems of long topics and
navigating the document history. But it's a consistent base to build upon.
Comments?
I was trying to radically improve devhelp, but it bombs out in gdb;)
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