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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [KDE Usability] How can we fix up the Global Shortcuts Dialog?
From:       Dotan Cohen <dotancohen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-04-13 9:58:56
Message-ID: z2o880dece01004130258w8d2fa75xe9f7ffe588b16c6e () mail ! gmail ! com
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> Over the course of doing support in Fedora KDE's IRC channel, I have seen
> one thing that has been a big usability problem for our users... The global
> shortcuts dialog. It's an important thing for people to find, but it is
> incredibly difficult to find, and when it _is_ found, to navigate.
>
> Sadly, though, I am kind of at a loss on how to improve the dialog. I think
> first and foremost, it would help to drop the dropdown list, and display all
> registered applications in the Tree Widget below.
>
> Basically, past that I don't have any other ideas, and I don't claim to be a
> usability expert at all, so does anyone else have thoughts on how to improve
> this dialog?
>

I myself have suffered from this dialogue. It looks like something is
displaying wrong, which decreases user confidence in himself
configuring it properly. Even now that I am used to it, I always feel
that something will not work as it looks like the dialogue is
displaying with errors.

This was discussed about one year ago. Take a look at this bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=166359

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