#16513: [RFC] New shortcut preferences design
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Reporter: nephele | Owner: nobody
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Preferences/Shortcuts | Version: R1/Development
Resolution: | Keywords:
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Platform: All |
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Comment (by madmax):
I see the second panel "out of place" there. I've not read Haiku's HIG,
but I would expect that to be shown only when clicking an "add" button for
a new shortcut, and probably in a new dialog, with the main one just
having the list and assignments.
Another small detail in the mockup is that a checkbox is marked to disable
a shortcut. Even if it's clear it just doesn't look right.
I see you have shortcut -> action. I'd expect just the oposite. That is, I
don't want a list of default shortcuts to which there are assigned
actions, but a list of actions to which I may assign shortcuts. That would
also remove the "default shortcuts" text from all over the place, and
would also remove the duplicate items when you change a shortcut to a
different action.
I do like the grouping of related actions.
You can have a look at Gnome's solution here, for example:
https://forum.level1techs.com/t/gnome3-the-keyboard-shortcut-guide-
dealing-with-flatpaks-terminal-apps/153272. There are categories, like in
yours, with the actions and their shortcut (not the other way around), a
button to reset all shortcuts to the defaults, changed shortcuts shown a
different way (bold text in this case) and with a button to reset them.
There's also a search button, which may or not fit here. The look doesn't
have to be the same, of course, and the dialog for a new shortcut would
probably be more complex, with launching a command just one of the
possibilities here.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/16513#comment:9>
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