Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-24 Thread Dylan McCall
Okay, I'm a big fan of this suggestion :) I think annihilating the shortcut key text is a bit overkill, and having it appear when the user highlights the menu item will do the opposite of what you want. Jumping and blinking text is a terrible, terrible experience. I like the idea of shrinking, it

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-24 Thread Jan Claeys
Op woensdag 13-01-2010 om 01:35 uur [tijdzone +], schreef Matt Wheeler: > (Sorry for replying just to you at first, Barry. I wish Gmail would > guess when I meant to hit reply to all :-D) Every decent mail client will offer you a reply-to-list/reply-to-group function -- reply-to-all is meant

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-13 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 13, 2010, at 01:35 AM, Matt Wheeler wrote: >The option is in System > Preferences > Appearance > Interface >(Editable menu shortcut keys) That's it! How intuitive . Really, this should be on Keyboard Shortcuts. >(Sorry for replying just to you at first, Barry. I wish Gmail would >guess

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-12 Thread Matt Wheeler
The option is in System > Preferences > Appearance > Interface (Editable menu shortcut keys) I think the shortcuts should be displayed when a meta key is pressed, at the very least. I also use the menus to discover keyboard shortcuts I didn't know about. (Sorry for replying just to you at first,

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-12 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 12, 2010, at 11:23 PM, Siegfried Gevatter wrote: >Thorsten Wilms proposed: «Additionally, hitting any meta key >could show them all (not just those with the meta key in question).» > >Wouldn't that be enough? Maybe so. What about when I invoke a menu from the keyboard? -Barry signature

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-12 Thread Siegfried Gevatter
Only showing shortcuts when the mouse is over them sounds great to me. 2010/1/12 Barry Warsaw : > It would be less convenient, because right now all I have to do is open the > top-level menu and I can see all the shortcuts for the commands under that > menu. Thorsten Wilms proposed: «Additionally

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-12 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 12, 2010, at 02:50 PM, David Siegel wrote: >Barry, as a keyboard-heavy user, clearly removing keyboard shortcuts >categorically would be devastating, but how do you think the change to >only showing keyboard shortcuts for the highlighted menu entry would >affect you? It would be less conve

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 14:50 -0600, David Siegel wrote: > > Note too that Gnome supports changing the shortcuts by hovering over the > > menu > > item and hitting the key chord you want. So if you get rid of the shortcuts > > you still have to support this use case. > > Very interesting. I just

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-12 Thread Vishnoo
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 21:11 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote: > On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 13:53 -0600, David Siegel wrote: > > > ...Rich Jones suggested curbing the display of all keyboard > > shortcuts in menus. > > > (https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/493762) > > It does look nicer

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-12 Thread David Siegel
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 15:37 -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote: > On Jan 12, 2010, at 01:53 PM, David Siegel wrote: > > >Drawing upon the discussion surrounding the bug "Underline under > >accelerator characters in buttons and menu bar should only show when Alt > >is pressed"*, Rich Jones suggested curbing

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-12 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Jan 12, 2010, at 01:53 PM, David Siegel wrote: >Drawing upon the discussion surrounding the bug "Underline under >accelerator characters in buttons and menu bar should only show when Alt >is pressed"*, Rich Jones suggested curbing the display of all keyboard >shortcuts in menus. At first, I tho

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-12 Thread Martin Albisetti
On 01/12/2010 04:53 PM, David Siegel wrote: * How would you feel if only the keyboard shortcut for the highlighted menu entry (e.g. the menu entry under the cursor) were shown? I think this would be a great compromise. +1 -- Martin ___ Mailing

Re: [Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-12 Thread Thorsten Wilms
On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 13:53 -0600, David Siegel wrote: > ...Rich Jones suggested curbing the display of all keyboard > shortcuts in menus. > (https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/493762) It does look nicer and is less distracting in all cases where you do not care about the shor

[Ayatana] Hiding shortcut keys in menus

2010-01-12 Thread David Siegel
Drawing upon the discussion surrounding the bug "Underline under accelerator characters in buttons and menu bar should only show when Alt is pressed"*, Rich Jones suggested curbing the display of all keyboard shortcuts in menus. At first, I thought this was a ludicrous suggestion, but then I took a