At 5:32am -0500 Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Michael Meeks wrote:
On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 23:30 -0800, Patrick Bakker wrote:
DELETE CELL "HELPER"
The delete cell "helper" dialog box pops up anytime I try to delete
a cell or cell selection. It gives me options to delete some
And this is deadly annoying too - it is already disabled by default
in LibreOffice master, delete now just deletes: If you want the old
behaviour (since you've learned it at length) - you can select the
'Compatibility' options for Calc, and the 'legacy' keybindings.
So - hopefully this makes you happy too ;-)
Meh, for me personally, I don't care. However, I do try to stay on top
of the small things like this as they change between versions and
distros so that I can help out when I'm shoulder surfing or helping a
friend/family member over the phone. It's amazing that what trips up
communication over the phone (i.e. when I can't see what they're doing).
The big conceptual items aren't the issue. It's the small stuff, like
for-granted key strokes doing something else.
- Shift+Del permanently removes the file right then.
Which makes me wonder; should shift-del give you this 'delete contents'
option in that mode (or is the menu sufficient).
I didn't know about the Shift + Delete keystroke which helps. Having
two work around the easiest keystroke still feels wrong
Agreed; cf. above.
Huh. Yeah, it's always a play between working with the less-capable
users, and what perhaps feels "right" to each of us.
This leads to a perhaps bigger thought process of generally all our
shortcuts and actions. Is there a list somewhere? Or are these
piecemeal throughout the code? I do see Tools->Customize, which begins
to address the key mappings. But what about the "random" settings
throughout LO like this?
From bitter experience with my father, this is also the kind of muscle
memory that gets slowly customized ("fixed") over time, and sometimes
lost when I install a new version. It would be nice to have a clear
notion of how to handle an upgrade path with legacy users' "learned"
interactions.
Has the upgrade case in terms of keyboard and interaction been thought
about? Do we currently write these out somewhere in the user's setup,
and deal with them appropriately when upgrading?
Kevin
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