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GTK Enhancement - Don't require <enter> key-press When Saving Abbreviations #264

Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 8 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago
As you know, you can associate abbreviations to phrases in Autokey-GTK, so that 
while you are typing (anywhere), by typing the abbreviation, Autokey-GTK will 
replace that abbreviation with a longer phrase that would be more 
time-consuming to type outright.

The GUI for associating an abbreviation with a phrase is slightly unintuitive. 
For example, follow these steps.

1) Go to one of the sample phrases that comes with Autokey-GTK.
2) In the right-pane, see "Abbreviations:(None configured)" and click the "Set" 
button (to the right).
3) Click the "Add" button and type ";test" (no quotes), and do not press 
<enter>.
4) Immediately click the "OK" button.

Unfortunately, your abbreviation will not be added, because you didn't press 
the enter key at the end of step 3.

This usability-bug-report is suggesting that this additional step of having to 
press enter (at the end of step 3) is unintuitive and should not be explicitly 
required; pressing the "OK" button alone should suffice. Otherwise, the user 
becomes confused thinking that Autokey isn't saving the abbreviations they're 
adding.

Downstream Link: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/autokey/+bug/1243324

Original issue reported on code.google.com by lonnie...@startport.com on 22 Oct 2013 at 5:37