https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169659
--- Comment #17 from BDF <[email protected]> --- Created attachment 205043 --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=205043&action=edit 205019: CALC - bug 169659 - keyboard shortcuts - EN multi (In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #16) > (In reply to BDF from comment #9) > > As the initial goal was to improve the label for it to represent what it > > does (eg. "Footnote" -> "Insert footnote")... > > [...] > > Which I still don't really understand - a clear use case like "I want > to assign a new shortcut to the "Bold" function and wasn't able to do so > because..." would help. > Regarding the tickets and the blog post I have to work through them when I have a little bit more time on my hands. Regarding the use case: => Notes: - The assumption is that you do *not* know LibreOffice inside out, know every row of code by name and have also not replaced your set of prayers with your rosary with UNO commands (TLDR: You are a rather new user). - Numbers in brackets (eg. (1) ) refer to the attached image I want to assign a new shortcut to the "Bold" function and wasn't able to do so because it was unclear to me what the function behind the label does and what would really happen when I press the shortcut. When you want to make a text bold, the menu tree tells you what the menu entry will do: Format > Text > Bold (the format of the text will be changed to bold). If you click on the UI button for making the text bold, the visual style of button itself tells you that you are about to change the font style. If you want to assign a keyboard shortcut and search for "bold", neither the label nor the tooltip (or the UNO command name) tells you what the function really does (5). This is probably a rather bad example as even new users more than likely know about font styles. The footnote is maybe a better example as there are more options. When you want to insert a footnote, the menu tree again tells you what the menu entry will do (Insert > Footnote/Endnote > Footnote; you will insert a footnote) and the UI button shows the tooltip 'insert footnote' on hover. It is clear what happens in your document when you press the button. However "footnote" in the keyboard shortcuts window does not say what it will do in your document. If you search for "footnote" (3) you get "Edit Footnote/Endnote", "Footnote" (what does it do?), "Footnote/Endnote" (wdid?), Footnote/Endnote Settings x2 (Is there difference? There has to be a difference otherwise it wouldn't be listed, right?), "Insert Special Footnote/Endnote". The grammatical mood of the menu text would may be best as (short) imperative: Insert Footnote! You can also think about it as controlling your PC with your voice. User: "Footnote!"; PC: Footnote _what_? Add footnote? Edit footnote? Delete footnote? Transform footnote to endnote? If the text is sufficiently precise to be used as voice command for the PC, it is also able to give the user a clear representation what will happen: If I bind key "X" to "Insert Footnote", it will insert a footnote on button press. If I bind key "Y" to "Footnote", ??? will happen. "Word joiner" is a good example in english as well. You search for "word joiner" (1) and without viewing the tooltip you know from just reading the function label that if you bind this function to kex "X" it will insert a word joiner on button press. The label and the tooltip also seem to be reversed in the english version as well for word joiner (2). "Insert Special Footnote/Endnote" (4) would also be a good example. You may not know what's so special about a "special footnote", but you know that if you bind this function to key "X" you will insert one of them. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
