#14277: Shortcuts: Improve interface
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Reporter: Janus | Owner: leavengood
Type: enhancement | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Preferences/Shortcuts | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by leavengood):
I am going to make changes incrementally to avoid getting overwhelmed, and
to just fix some of the immediately broken aspects of Shortcuts. The first
step will be to replace the text interface with a proper edit window,
probably much like Humdinger's text mock-up. This will likely still
include some text boxes for application path or signatures for messages.
Once we have that we can see about improving it with drop downs or
QuickLaunch style search boxes, then proper support for GetSuites.
I haven't thought about it deeply yet, but I do like much about how the
macOS shortcuts look:
[[Image(macOS_keyboard_shortcuts.png)]]
But these only include "common actions" as nephele calls them, and we want
to be more flexible than that. But I think it would be nice to have
readable list of messages we know built-in Haiku servers or applications
support so user's can quickly choose them, even if they just "expand out"
to a message call with a signature and weird message code. But even that
could be fixed by just having some mappings to nicer views in the UI:
"Open find panel in Tracker".
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/14277#comment:15>
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