I think a user will quickly realize the difference between the list of
recommended items which is first and not in alphabetical order and the
list of all items which is in alphabetical order.
If you need to have extra text, put it at the end of the string.
A long-time user will appreciate listening to fewer sylables. If the new user
needs to
wait a couple seconds to get get some information, I think that's a
reasonable tradeoff.
Chris
On Mon, Nov 05, 2018 at 07:47:34PM +0000, Dante Gagne wrote:
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First off, if folks think this is an inappropriate use of the list, just say
so and I'll take it offlist and apologize up front. However, I was hoping I
could ask the crowd for a few opinions now and then for functionality that
we're considering in the upcoming version(s) of Visual Studio. Essentially, I
have my guesses that this experience would work, but I'd rather YOU folks
tell me that it does.
Today when you're coding in Visual Studio, when you hit "." After a token,
the Intellisense completion list comes up with every single possible token
that could follow. So, if you type "Debug.", you'll get "Assert, AutoFlush,
Close,..." etc... (To be clear, you get a list box with each of these as an
entry in it, so you'd hit arrow key to travel through).
The new feature, uses machine learning to "guess" what is most commonly used.
For instance, for most folks, Debug.Write or Debug.WriteLine is the most
common completion. The feature will move those items to the top of the list.
However, since they're out of alphabetical order, they are annotated to show
that these are "recommended" instead of in the "everything" list.
If we did nothing, when you type Debug. You would hear "Write, Writeline,
Assert, Autoflush", etc... But in that case, you don't know which ones are
recommended, just that they're the first ones.
The question I have is this... how would you feel if the recommended
completions were preceded with the word "Star"? So, if I went this way, you'd
type "Debug" and hear "Star Write, Star Writeline, Assert, Autoflush...". The
first suggestion that was made was to say "Recommended", but that's four
syllables and I asserted that a screen reader user would go crazy having to
sit through hearing "Recommended Recommended Recommended..." over and over.
But "Star" is very quick.
We had also thought about putting it after the token so you'd here "Write
Star, Writeline Star, Assert, Autoflush" but the thought there was that
"Write Star" sounds an awful lot like the name of the method is literally
"WriteStar".
How do folks feel about this? Is "Star" short enough that saying it before
the recommended items (of which there usually aren't more than 2-3)? Some
other suggestion?
Thanks in advance, and again, I do apologize if this is out of line for the
mailing list. Just let me know.
-Dante
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