[Libreoffice-ux-advise] lp#891539: Fullscreen via F11 should work

[Christoph Noack]

Hi Björn,

the proposals generally feel good to me, although I don't use specific
shortcuts myself. Some comments ...


Am Freitag, den 18.11.2011, 13:32 +0100 schrieb Bjoern Michaelsen:
> Hi,
> 
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 11:31:24PM +0100, Christoph Noack wrote:
> > First, our dear colleagues at Wikipedia provide a great table with
> > shortcut keys for different platforms. Except for Mac OS X, [F11] seems
> > common for all platforms - but I'm unsure why it doesn't work there
> > (some people claim F11 is bound for Exposé features, Firefox offers F11
> > for fullscreen view as well)
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Table_of_keyboard_shortcuts#Window_management
> 
> according to Andras, the stylist is at Ctrl-T on mac, so moving it there too on
> Linux and Windows makes sense to me.

As long we don't interfere with other Ctrl+T functions ...

And, is Ctrl+T really available for all modules (it is not only Writer).

> > 
> > Second, F11 is not the only related feature bound to F11. Shift+F11
> > seems used for new styles (from selection), and Ctrl+Shift+F11 updates a
> > style. So binding a given feature to F11 might break the similarity of
> > the other F11-keybindings
> 
> Proposal: Ctrl-Shift-T for new styles, no _default_ shortcut for "update
> style". Whoever is using that is experienced enough to set his own shortcut if
> needed.

Fine.

> > Third, are we sure that the fullscreen view is more often used than
> > working with the Stylist? It seems we don't have a viable (easy to
> > remember) shortcut for that.
> 
> Yes, I am sure: Launchpad tells me so, it also tell me that most users dont
> know or care about the Stylist at all. Ctrl-T is easy to remember: sTylist
> (every user accessing the Stylist is advanced enough to know that it cant be
> Ctrl-S).

I tried to look up the shortcut for the "Styles and Formatting" window
for Word, but was unable to find.

So, how to continue ... wait for some other comments? I think I can't
add that much :-)

Cheers,
Christoph