[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 139293] New: Function-focused way to add keyboard shortcuts

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139293

            Bug ID: 139293
           Summary: Function-focused way to add keyboard shortcuts
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 7.0.4.2 release
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: Calc
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: ddascalescu+freedesktop at gmail.com

Created attachment 168541
  --> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=168541&action=edit
Unintuitive how to add a shortcut

Tried to add keyboard shortcuts today after not doing that for several months,
so I approached the task with a beginner's mind (vs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge). The task was surprisingly
cumbersome.

What I wanted to do was to assign a keyboard shortcut to formatting text as
Strikethrough. Here are the steps I performed, logical in my mind:

1. Tools -> Customize -> Keyboard
2. There, I saw "Functions", which showed a helpful placeholder, "Type to
search"
3. I typed "strike" and found the Strikethrough function. Great so far.

Now, how do I add a keyboard shortcut to it? The Keys pane was empty. There was
no visible UI afordance to let me add a shortcut. Right clicking didn't reveal
one wither. The "Modify" button was greyed out.

At that point I was stumped in frustration for a good minute.

Later I tried the task again, and looked at the Shortcut Keys list, then
scrolled down for the desired shortcut, typed "strike" again, and the Modify
button was enabled this time.

I think this flow is a little counter-intuitive for users who think of the
function they want to assign a shortcut to first. Even if you think of the key
combo first, scrolling down to it can be a lengthy process, and you don't
necessarily know the order - is it Alt+Shift+X, or Shift+Alt+X?

My suggestion would be to keep the current flow for compatibility, but enable
the user at Step 3 above to add a shortcut by pressing it directly, for example
via an "Assign shortcut" button associated with the Keys panel. The GNOME
interface offers a good example of how to do this in System Settings ->
Keyboard Shortcuts. The user picks the function first, then they can simply
press the desired keyboard combination.

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