[Bug 159299] Usability: Menu item "View/Field Names" and causing confusion, suggest removing entry and keyboard shortcut

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=159299

Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Blocks|                            |98259, 107739
           Keywords|needsUXEval                 |difficultyBeginner,
                   |                            |easyHack, skillDesign
                 CC|libreoffice-ux-advise at lists |heiko.tietze at documentfounda
                   |.freedesktop.org            |tion.org,
                   |                            |mentoring at documentfoundatio
                   |                            |n.org
             Status|UNCONFIRMED                 |NEW
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #10 from Heiko Tietze <heiko.tietze at documentfoundation.org> ---
(In reply to jan d from comment #9)
> No, I actually meant something like a non-modal, small bar or the like? I
> attach a mockup (not saying its great, but have a look)
We call it infobar (eg. shown when opening a read-only document).

> ID in the tooltip ... some fields are very small and hard to hit
True

And since we have some strong arguments to keep the function in the menu it
remains a) only to remove the accelerator (simple easyhack) and b) optionally
add an infobar (sounds like over-engineering to me as users would deliberately
enable it; medium difficult easyhack).

Code pointer:

All <node oor:name="F9_MOD1" oor:op="replace"> assigned to .uno:Fieldnames in
officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/Office/Accelerators.xcu needs to be
removed.

An example for the infobar would be BaseWindow::ShowReadOnlyInfoBar(), but I
suggest to not follow the idea.


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=98259
[Bug 98259] [META] Keyboard shortcuts and accelerators bugs and enhancements
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107739
[Bug 107739] [META] Field bugs and enhancements
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