Re: Retiring app menus - planning for 3.32.0

[Tomasz Torcz <tomek pipebreaker pl>]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 11:59:54AM -0700, Christian Hergert wrote:
> On 09/21/2018 11:43 AM, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > Can you elaborate on this? One of the goals of Mallard is to allow
> > plugin docs to integrate into the main app docs. Is there something we
> > could be doing better?
>
> Advertise the feature? :)
>
> Does it work when they are installed into different directories like
> ~/.local/share/$app/plugins vs /usr for the app?
>
> I'm still not in favor of users having to open help and scan for
> shortcuts when we have a very simple way to find what you're looking for
> via the search window (and discover new things you didn't know about).
>
> But I'm biased, given that I wrote it.
>
> I'm also skeptical that users will think to open help to find shortcuts
> when the dominant platform (web) has gone with the shortcuts overlay
> route (albeit their only option).

  Going extra mile to “find” shortcut is never gonna fly.  Years ago, we
had a perfect solution for discovering shortcuts  – relevant letters
were underlined in the menus.  In some cases underlining appeared only
after Alt was pressed, which was less discoverable, but still many
times more easy to find than shortcuts popup easter egg.
  Please bring back underlined menu items.
 

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