What is it that Marcus always says? “The perfect is the enemy of progress” or something like that ;-) Sure, let’s 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 <tu...@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 <jfa...@dcc.uchile.cl > <mailto:jfa...@dcc.uchile.cl>> wrote: > > +1 on what Stef said. > > And for what it’s 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. It’s 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 <steph...@free.fr >> <mailto:steph...@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 > > > > ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <http://emailcharter.org/> > <--- > > Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry <http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry> > PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile > > > > > -- > www.tudorgirba.com <http://www.tudorgirba.com/> > > "Every thing has its own flow" ---> Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org <--- Johan Fabry - http://pleiad.cl/~jfabry PLEIAD lab - Computer Science Department (DCC) - University of Chile
