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title="UNCONFIRMED - Function-focused way to add keyboard shortcuts"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139293">139293</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>Function-focused way to add keyboard shortcuts
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<th>Product</th>
<td>LibreOffice
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<th>Version</th>
<td>7.0.4.2 release
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>UNCONFIRMED
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>Calc
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>ddascalescu+freedesktop@gmail.com
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<pre>Created <span class=""><a href="http://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=168541" name="attach_168541" title="Unintuitive how to add a shortcut">attachment 168541</a> <a href="http://bugs.documentfoundation.org/attachment.cgi?id=168541&action=edit" title="Unintuitive how to add a shortcut">[details]</a></span>
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.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curse_of_knowledge</a>). 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.</pre>
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