jzohrab / lute

DEPRECATED: LUTE (Learning Using Texts) is a self-hosted web app for learning language through reading, based on Learning with Texts (LWT)
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Hover mouse + hotkey for all actions (instead of having to select first) #46

Closed jzohrab closed 1 year ago

jzohrab commented 1 year ago

This feels like a nice idea, less clicky-clicky.

In addition, at least one user (quopquaoi in Discord) reported an issue: when clicking a term, the language dictionary (Jisho, Japanese dict) was "pulling focus", so the hotkey was actually getting sent to Jisho, instead of being handled by Lute. If hotkeys worked on hover, that wouldn't be a problem, because Lute would still be running the show (would have focus).

Possible implementation:

UX issues to sort out:

jzohrab commented 1 year ago

For the UX - will say "hit ESC" or "hit space" to stop the red underline, and return to "hover" mode. Will likely be fine.

Have to change the tutorial.