frasertweedale
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5 years ago Stacked widget support could be helpful in implementing this: https://github.com/purebred-mua/purebred/issues/297
Open romanofski opened 6 years ago
frasertweedale
commented
5 years ago Stacked widget support could be helpful in implementing this: https://github.com/purebred-mua/purebred/issues/297
I think the current help view should be replaced with something better and by better I mean we can probably shelve #85.
The problem with the current help view is that it isn't very useful, because a) you leave your former view in order to "read" the help b) it adds a context switch to what you were doing
The problem with all of this is, that it interrupts your workflow even if it shows you key bindings for your currently focused widgets. Furthermore, I doubt that anyone reads beyond that. Who would remember this, even?
So I think we can do better. I'm thinking of something like a context help toggle, you e.g. bind to F1. When you press F1 and hold it pressed, you see a little window - which will hopefully not obstruct the widget you have currently focused - with all the key bindings for the focused widgets.
Why is this better? a) There is no workflow interruption, because the little help window disappears when you stop pressing F1 (if it's bound to this key) b) You get all the information for the focused widget which IMHO is all you're interested in.