[feature]: toggles on primary window

[huyz]

Proposal

Instead of making the user go into the settings to toggle which items to show, how about putting the toggles at the bottom of the window?

There's lots of room next to the Keyclu on the bottom-left for example.

I'm thinking of these toggles primarily:

• Show bookmarks
• Show user-hidden menu items
• Show inactive menu items

Maybe even (but less important):

• My shortcuts
• macOS Keyboard Shortcuts

But I'm also thinking of another toggle, which I'll create a separate Feature Request #66 for:

• Show menu items with no assigned shortcut (this is to make use of the very convenient CustomShortcuts functionality)

The toggles could take the form of checkboxes or could be of the form of button toggles; e.g. (Source)

Thanks for considering.

Alternatives

Just have to go into the Settings to toggle things on and off.

[Anze]

Hey huyz, Thanks for the proposal. I hadn't considered that people might change those options frequently, as typically, once you set up an app, you don't tend to tinker with it unless there's a special occasion. I might add such options at some point in the future.

[huyz]

The toggles could take the form of checkboxes or could be of the form of button toggles; e.g. (Source)

[Anze]

I was trying out some switch/toggle icons to see how they'd look, but I realized that I don't have enough clear images for the indicating states of the options. I want to avoid using a word option with just a checkmark, as it doesn't fit with a modern UI. This example demonstrates the issue I'm facing. Can you easily tell what each option would do?

[huyz]

• I can only tell the bookmark one. (And per https://github.com/Anze/KeyCluCask/issues/70, I would probably prefer it being a star, so I don't confuse them with Browser bookmarks)
• I'll guess the crossed-out lightbulb is the "user-hidden menu items"?

I can't tell the other 3. Here are some ideas:

• Maybe for "inactive menu items", you could have one that looks like the crossed-out lightbulb but would instead be a crossed-out lightning bolt: https://thenounproject.com/icon/off-3689142/
• For "macOS keyboard shortcuts", I would have the apple icon
• For "My shortcuts", maybe something with a hand would be good. Example: https://thenounproject.com/icon/custom-settings-2347596/

But the right choice probably isn't critical, as long as mouse-hover tooltips work, which is what I would rely on. Then I'd eventually learn which icon is what. And I don't expect to be toggling all of them a lot. Maybe just one or two.

I'm sure over time, you'll find better icons and can replace them.

[Anze]

So you've got just about one bookmark — well, almost. It essentially toggles the display of bookmarked items as a group (#68). I aimed to stick to the icons available in SF Symbols. Regarding tooltips, there's a hiccup preventing tooltips from appearing in certain cases. I'll explore the possibility of including some essential switches into the command bar for the next release.

[Anze]

Hey huyz, I've just released a new version. Would love to hear your thoughts.

[huyz]

Works great for my use case, which is mainly about being able to add shortcuts to menu items that don't have shortcuts.

Thanks @Anze for implementing this.

It's a bit hard to tell what the icons do. Here are some suggestions that might help:

• Adding tooltips if possible—I know that can be hard depending on the APIs. Or maybe briefly display some text when we toggle.
• I don't understand what happens when I toggle: a key combo is displayed but I'm not sure what that is. Here, some text would help as well.
• I wouldn't mind if the bottom bar were larger so that the icons were larger.
• I feel like the ⌘ icon would be more obvious as a "right-panel" icon: https://thenounproject.com/icon/sidebar-6450283/
• Playing around I can figure out what I and H stand for, but I still can't figure out what K is for.

[Anze]

Hey huyz, Thanks for the feedback! I'll definitely keep your suggestions in mind. Here is the idea behind the toggles: K - My (Custom) Shortcuts (stands for KeyClu) ⌘ - Apple Hotkeys I - inactive menus H - hidden menus I agree it could be more clear. Thanks again for sharing your thoughts!

As for the symbols briefly displayed during toggling, they are just an attempt to make the loading more fun. Currently, those combinations don't mean anything, but might be real ones in the future.

[huyz]

Here's another suggestion that would help make things less confusing as well as automatically teaching us the meaning of K, H, I:

Only show each icon if the user has added at least one custom shortcuts (K) and hidden at least one menu entry (H). If I ever did that, I'd notice that the icon had appeared soon after I created one of those and I'd be able to guess what the icons mean.

For I, only show it if there is at least one inactive menu item.