rmunn
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3 years ago In addition to grouping the shortcuts by category or context (editor, story view, or whatever), I'd like to also see two other groups. One would be a group called "All shortcuts by name" that presents them in alphabetical order of the shortcut name, i.e. exactly the way they're currently presented. And the other would be a group called "All shortcuts by key", that presents them in pseudo-alphabetical order of the keys used, with the following guidelines:
- Keys with modifiers are grouped together with the same key without modifiers, so that Enter, ctrl-Enter, and shift-Enter are all next to each other in the list. Within one group (say, the Enter group), the "base" key (Enter) always sorts first, then keys with a single modifier sort next in "standard" order of modifiers (defined below), then all two-modifier keys in "standard" order of the first modifier followed by "standard" order of the second, and so on for any shortcuts with three or more modifiers.
- "Standard" modifier order is ctrl comes first, then shift, then alt comes last. Just like how you write ctrl-shift-A, not shift-ctrl A, you write shift-alt-S, not alt-shift-S, and you write ctrl-alt-Del, not alt-ctrl-Del.
- Example because the last sentence of that bullet point is rather dense: if all the following shortcuts existed, they would sort in the following order: Enter, ctrl-Enter, shift-Enter, alt-Enter, ctrl-shift-Enter, ctrl-alt-Enter, shift-alt-Enter, ctrl-shift-alt-Enter.
- Keys that are not single letters (Enter, Escape, etc) sort alphabetically in a different section than the letter keys. E.g., if there are ctrl-E, ctrl-F, ctrl-G, F2, and Enter shortcuts in someone's wiki, I would not want to see them sort as ctrl-E, then Enter, then ctrl-F, then F2, then ctrl-G. I don't know yet if keys that are not letters should sort before or after letter keys, but I am leaning towards "before", in which case the right sort order of those five keys would be Enter, F2, ctrl-E, ctrl-F, ctrl-G.
Open questions about the design I just outlined:
- What about the Mac modifier key Cmd (⌘)? Where should it sort in the ctrl-shift-alt order? I don't use a Mac, so I have no experience with how keyboard shortcuts are typically presented in OS X when ⌘ is combined with another modifier. Do they write it as ⌘-Shift-A, or Shift-⌘-A, or Shift-⌘A, or what? If someone who uses a Mac could look in the menu of their various apps and determine what the sorting rule is for ⌘ when combined with other modifiers, that would be useful to help us determine how to present that key.
- What about the Mac "option" key (⌥)? Is it even possible for applications (and webpages running in the browser) to see the ⌥ key and use it for anything? Or is it exclusively captured by OS X and used to allow typing useful Unicode characters, such as option-v to get the √ symbol, and apps can't override that? If OS X captures the option key and doesn't let apps change its behavior, then we can never have opt-V as a keyboard shortcut and we don't need to worry about how it sorts. But if apps can assign behavior to combinations like opt-V, then we also need to find out how it sorts. Again, if someone who uses a Mac could look in the menu of their various apps and determine what the sorting rule is for the option key (⌥) when combined with other modifiers, that would be useful to help us determine how to present that key.
saqimtiaz
kookma
twMat
Background: #4952
We need a better way to organize and group keyboard shortcuts, settings etc in the control panel tab.
For instance the keyboard shortcuts list is long and hard to scan at a glance. Perhaps a way to group them: collapsible sections or sub-tabs for editor shortcuts, UI shortcuts, etc.
toggle-sidebarfor example, is listed betweensuperscriptandunderline, which isn't intuitive when you don't know how the keyboard shortcut might be described.@Jermolene suggested that: "The palette editor and settings tab suffer from many of the same problems, perhaps there's scope to bring in a general purpose component that groups items and provides dynamic search (similar to the existing plugins listing)."