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window manager keyboard shortcut settings dialog usability issue
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RESOLVED: DUPLICATE

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Description Zach Carter 2009-03-10 16:13:31 CET
I had a lot of trouble figuring out how to use the keyboard window shortcut settings dialog.  

Several people on the mailing list chimed in and explained it to me, and eventually I got the really simple method of just pressing the keys and they magically appear.   

This was after I had already given up on that and manually edited the keyboard settings xml file.

I think the usability of the dialog could be improved by:
- (un)shading the "Shortcut:" text entry box where you enter the key(s).
- more explicitly explaining what to do.  (like "enter the keys here now:").

See the ml discussion here:

http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce/2009-March/024912.html

You can assign this bug to me, and I'll come up with a patch for it.

Thanks!

-Zach
Comment 1 Zach Carter 2009-03-11 16:17:47 CET
Created attachment 2226 
Give the user more explicit shortcut entry instructions

In the shortcut dialog:

- Grow the table to 3 rows.
- Change the "Shortcut:" label to say "Press the desired shortcut keys now ..."
- Grow the instructions to span both columns.
- Put the shortcut_label in both columns of the new 3rd row.
Comment 2 Jannis Pohlmann editbugs 2009-03-11 17:36:25 CET
I'd be ok with something like that because I agree on the lack of usability here. However, since this patch changes the strings to be translated, it's impossible to add it in 4.6.1. We could aply it in the 4.8 cycle though.
Comment 3 Zach Carter 2009-03-11 21:29:55 CET
(In reply to comment #2)
> I'd be ok with something like that because I agree on the lack of usability
> here. However, since this patch changes the strings to be translated, it's
> impossible to add it in 4.6.1. We could aply it in the 4.8 cycle though.

Sounds good to me. In the meantime, I guess I could set up a frame widget around the label to make it stand out a little more.  

thanks!

-Zach
Comment 4 Jérôme Guelfucci editbugs 2012-12-20 00:23:55 CET

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 5414 ***

Bug #5079

Reported by:
Zach Carter
Reported on: 2009-03-10
Last modified on: 2012-12-20

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Jannis Pohlmann
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