What is it that Marcus always says? âThe perfect is the enemy of progressâ or something like that ;-) Sure, letâs search for a better way, but can we have some intermediate solution in the mean time? For example, I think that just above the entry field you could put 1 line of keyboard shortcuts, in a smaller font. The eye is looking there when typing anyway.
On Feb 7, 2015, at 23:46, Tudor Girba <tudor@tudorgirba.com> wrote:
Hi,
I agree (again) that the shortcuts are not well explained and we will work on it. Showing a list of all actions far away from the context in which they should be used is more of a patch than a solution though. Let us search for a better way :). Tooltips will probably be the first thing we'll try.
Cheers, Doru
On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 8:20 PM, Johan Fabry <jfabry@dcc.uchile.cl <mailto:jfabry@dcc.uchile.cl>> wrote:
+1 on what Stef said.
And for what itâs worth, I think that the biggest step to add usability of the spotter right now would be a simple legend at the bottom of the results. It would list the shortcut keys applicable to the current selection with a small description of what they do. Itâs not sexy and exiting to implement but it will be a huge help. For example, such a legend would have eliminated all the questions and conversations on the spotter that happened this week.
On Feb 7, 2015, at 15:50, stepharo <stepharo@free.fr <mailto:stepharo@free.fr>> wrote:
Le 5/2/15 14:38, Tudor Girba a écrit :
Hi,
Yes. As Alex said, we want all actions to have a visual representation. This is on our todo list. The question is why should we learn a visual representation presenting "cmd"-> is more effective (there are plenty of research paper on UI learnability) that a triangle.
Stef
As for configurability, there is no grand plan at the moment. We could indeed expose shortcuts as settings.
Cheers, Doru
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