Req: Show Keyboard Shortcuts in Properties Pane

[Tim Kaufmann]

Hi,

wouldn't it be useful if the headings in properties pane would include
their keyboard-shortcuts? Instead of

"General"
"Timing & Reminder"
"Effort"
etc.

it could be

"General (Alt + F1)"
"Timing & Reminder (Alt + F2)"
"Effort (Alt + F3)"
etc.

Tim

[Mark Levison]

Tim can you cite another mainstream application that does this? Normally shortcuts are displayed only for the menu items in this case (View -> Task Parameters -> General etc.). I see that in this menu the shortcuts are listed.

Mark
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[Tim Kaufmann]

Mark Levison schrieb:

> Tim can you cite another mainstream application that does this?

I think we should argue by usefulness, not by "how it's always been
done".

Tim

[Mark Levison]

My point was really that no one with a large usability lab and a chance to test these ideas has done it this way. MLO is a polished everyday working tool for me. I don't want it being turned into a great big UI experiment.

Specific objections: clutter the properties window is already cluttered as it is I don't want to add more especially for keystrokes that I think will be rarely used. As an alternative consider a post-it note (on your monitor) with the short-cuts that you need.

[Tim Kaufmann]

Mark Levison schrieb:

> My point was really that no one with a large usability lab and a chance to
> test these ideas has done it this way.

No argument for me. If it was one, I would never have tried MLO but
would have continued using Outlook, as it's UI has probably been tested
more intensively.

> MLO is a polished everyday working
> tool for me. I don't want it being turned into a great big UI experiment.
>
> Specific objections: clutter the properties window is already cluttered as
> it is

So what is MLO now, polished or cluttered?

> As an alternative consider a post-it note (on your monitor)
> with the short-cuts that you need.

Post-it? *Sigh* ;-)

As a crib, one could at least number the headlines, like

"1) General"

Would that be better?

Tim

PS: By the time we're through with this I'll probably know the
shortcuts by heart anyway ;-)

[Andrey Tkachuk (MLO)]

>wouldn't it be useful if the headings in properties pane would include
>their keyboard-shortcuts?

Point your mouse on a header, stop for a sec and you will see a hint
window with shortcut displayed in it.

Andrey.

[Mark Levison]

Now that's an elegant solution - Thanks Andrey.

Cheers
Mark

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[Luciano Passuello]

Nice. BTW, the Task Notes Pane header is missing the tooltip (Alt+7).

 

Regards.

Luciano.

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Subject: [MLO] Re: Req: Show Keyboard Shortcuts in Properties Pane

[Tim Kaufmann]

Mark Levison wrote:

> Now that's an elegant solution - Thanks Andrey.

At least as elegant as changing vom keyboard to mouse to look up
keyboard-shortcuts can be ... ;-)

Tim

[Andrey Tkachuk (MLO)]

>At least as elegant as changing vom keyboard to mouse to look up
>keyboard-shortcuts can be ... ;-)

Another way is to look up the shortcut into help documentation :)

If you look the shortcut in hint 2-3 times you will remember it. I do
not like the idea to show all shotrcuts in the main interface.

[David Rees]

I'm not seeing this in 4.1 for views or property sections. Did it go away?

I'll also just a middle ground that would be great for new folks (or folks trying to return like me :). You can show the shortcuts when Alt is depressed. Office does something like this.

d

[David Rees]

And on a related note it would be nice if there was a way to print the keyboard mappings (with custom changes included).

 

Thanks ,

d