On Monday, October 14, 2024 at 10:07:48 AM UTC-4 Edward K. Ream wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2024 at 7:59 AM Thomas Passin <[email protected]> wrote:> I also think we should devise a way for the user to know what they will be getting if they change the default layout. With the new layouts, at least it's easy enough to switch between them until one finds one he likes.
Afaik, all layout commands have docstrings with layout diagrams. Those diagrams should suffice. I think it's similar to the keybindings display. Theoretically a user could keep executing the help-for-keystrokes command until they found what they want. But Leo provides a menu item that displays a fairly readable list of all of them. Most users are not going to think about looking at docstrings, and if they did they might not realize that the associated command names can be seen (but not copied) in the Plugins menu, and if they did they might not connect those names with using F11. If they did get to the F11 stage, they would have to laboriously try one layout command after another, and remember the last ones as they went. It's just too hard. I think a menu item like /Settings/Show Settings/Show-Layouts that showed all those docstrings in a tab would be very helpful and right in line with what we already do with bindings, commands, etc. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/f9b50af8-0904-4c34-b4f1-ed01abb8f5f8n%40googlegroups.com.
