194494 - Enh: display shortcut for last action on status bar to increase discoverability

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Stefan Magdalinski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030210


So I've had this idea to make mozilla even better. 
I've actually had this idea kicking around at the back of my head since I worked
in a design studio years ago and watched the paintmonkeys trying to learn
keyboard shortcuts in Quark.
Keyboard shortcuts are way better (faster, less likely to cripple you) than
other WIMPs elements, but they have almost zero discoverability. I've got
endless lists of keyboard shortcuts for various apps pinned around my desk, but
I still don't know enough.

What I would like to do:

Add a hook into mozilla's event queue, and for every appropriate user action, if
that user action has an associated shortcut, display that shortcut in the status
bar. 

It's beautifully effective:

It allows me to always look in the same place for the information, rather than
having to read the A4 sheets pinned around the walls. Now it only takes a glance
to learn.

It's always to hand: if I know I'm going to repeat an action 5 times, I can do
the first one via the menu, and the next 4 via the keyboard. just like that.
Furthermore, I can then happily forget then, knowing that the cost of discovery
is going to be low next time.

I'm sure there's some complications (maybe the status bar's the wrong place),
maybe certain actions need to get filtered out, but it's got to be worth a try.




Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Example: 

I select 'Bookmark this page' from the bookmarks menu, and it flashes 'CTRL-D'
in the status bar. Possibly it should say what the action was too, in the status
bar.





I wrote some more stuff about it here:

<a href="http://www.whitelabel.org/archives/000213.html#000213">whitelable.org</a>

Comment 1

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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