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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KDE 4.2 Toolbars
From:       Peter <gostelow () global ! co ! za>
Date:       2008-11-21 13:02:47
Message-ID: 200811211503.21778.gostelow () global ! co ! za
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On Thursday 20 November 2008 09:26, Mike Arthur wrote:
> On Thursday 20 November 2008 09:12:09 Peter wrote:
> > Personally, I'd start the new user off with the menubar and ignore
> > toolbars and short-cuts. 
>
> This reminds me actually of a very interesting plugin for Eclipse that I
> use called MouseFeed (http://www.mousefeed.com/). Basically, if you turn it
> on then it will, if you click a button in the menu or toolbar, show you the
> keyboard shortcut so I can learn the keyboard shortcuts quickly.
>
> I'm just thinking aloud but I wonder if you could use something similar to
> give a user other hints about how they could be more productive, e.g.
> highlighting toolbar items or right-click menus somehow?
>
> Food for thought....

The tooltip could include the shortcut as the menubar does, but I guess  that 
is up to  the app developers. IIRC, the shortcut  is embedded in a QAction 
class which won't be easily accessable to an external program. I do believe 
new users should be grounded in the metaphor first, unless they cannot use  
the interface for some compelling reason. The only shortcut I know to 
learning is a positive attitude and repetition;)

Peter
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