Re: Retiring app menus - planning for 3.32.0

[Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org>]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 1:25 PM Allan Day <aday gnome org> wrote:
> Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> > It's faster to access for users, has terser explanations (no need to
> > create sentences to describe actions) and
>
> To be clear, I'm still thinking this through but, if you had a page in
> the user docs which was a simple table of keyboard shortcuts, which
> was one click away in the user docs, there wouldn't be all that much
> to separate it from the keyboard shortcuts windows. And the advantage
> would be more integrated user documentation (I think that's
> essentially what the keyboard shortcut windows are). This would reduce
> the number of menu items, allows cross-linking, and so on.

The integrated search that filters relevant shortcuts is probably not
something that could be achieved easily in docs. Try it in totem: open
the shortcut window (hit ctrl+shift+?) and start typing "forward".
That kind of workflow is selling it for me.

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Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker