Shortcut for taskbar hints, overlay optimizations and no hints suffle

zsims / hunt-and-peck

Simple vimium/vimperator style navigation for Windows applications based on the UI Automation framework.

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Shortcut for taskbar hints, overlay optimizations and no hints suffle #25

Closed papadi closed 3 years ago

papadi commented 3 years ago

Added Ctrl+; as a shortcut to display hints for windows taskbar, regardless of the foreground window.
Overlay view now does not show up on windows taskbar
Made the hint input smaller and transparent. Especially important when displaying hints on top of windows taskbar. It was hiding half of the taskbar.
Removed shuffling of shortcuts. Why was that there anyway? It's much better to get the same shortcuts when displaying hints multiple times for the same UI.

zsims commented 3 years ago

Why was that there anyway? It's much better to get the same shortcuts when displaying hints multiple times for the same UI.

I followed what Vimperator/Vimium were doing. This shuffle is to make sure you don't train yourself into using the same shortcuts (because it might not be the same). That's a silly reason though, thanks for removing :)

liuxilu commented 3 years ago

But why a hotkey for taskbar? Isn't win+T enough?

jmlucjav commented 3 years ago

regarding that new hotkey...is it parametrizable? for instance I am using Ctrl+; already for something else in my always on ahk script...

papadi commented 3 years ago

But why a hotkey for taskbar? Isn't win+T enough? Requires a lot of key presses to switch to a window and even more to click on a tray icon.

papadi commented 3 years ago

regarding that new hotkey...is it parametrizable? for instance I am using Ctrl+; already for something else in my always on ahk script...

Unfortunately, this project doesn't have customization. It does have a placeholder for an option screen but it's not implemented. Perhaps we can get rid of that screen and create a json settings file instead. What do you think @zsims ?

I can also change it to get Alt+;+; instead of Ctrl+; but this would introduce a small delay in the Alt+; (waiting to see if another ; will be pressed)

liuxilu commented 3 years ago

En, a lot of? Just 2 more: win+T Alt+;

papadi commented 3 years ago

En, a lot of? Just 2 more: win+T Alt+;

I didn't think about this option. In fact, I wasn't aware of the Win+T shortcut. But still, that's 5-6 key strokes in total (win, t, alt, ; and then actual hint).

liuxilu commented 3 years ago

I come up with another thing: win+1, 2... And win+B

extratype commented 3 years ago

I didn't think about this option. In fact, I wasn't aware of the Win+T shortcut. But still, that's 5-6 key strokes in total (win, t, alt, ; and then actual hint).

You can press Win+T and then type the first letter of taskbar items. You can switch over multiple matching items by pressing the same letter multiple times.