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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another site that uses shortcuts very well is Remember the Milk. That one also 
uses single-key letter accelarators and display a portlet on key pages with 
common shortcuts. It also has a link to the full list.

Adi's did consider using single letter short-cut, but dismissed the idea 
because in Translations there is always an input field that has the focus by 
default. And single-letter shortcuts don't work well in such an environment. 
(Do you want the shortcut or type the letter?)

-- 
Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

On June 8, 2010, Maris Fogels wrote:
> On 06/08/2010 01:11 PM, Adi Roiban wrote:
> > We can add a list of keybindings on help.lp.net/Translations but it
> > would be nice to automatically inform or hint translators about the
> > available translations.
> > 
> > We can underline the letter, or put them KEY in brackets, but not all
> > actions have an associated text.
> > Exemple: Shift+Alt+C - copy original text.
> > 
> > It looks like most webapps don't provide a visual clue for their
> > shortcuts, but rather document them on the help page.
> > 
> > This is bug:
> > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/rosetta/+bug/591358
> > 
> > Do you know how can we implement such clues in Launchpad?
> > 
> > Many thanks!
> 
> Hi Adi,
> 
> That is a really interesting idea.  One of the most successful examples of
> keyboard shortcut use I have seen is the Gmail interface.  They have a
> number of useful designs, such as pressing '?' to get the help overlay,
> and a helpful link near the bottom of every page that says 'Work faster
> with Keyboard Shortcuts'.
> 
> Gmail also don't bother with key modifiers, just plain old character keys
> like 'n' and '#'.  I have seen these single-key shortcuts criticized as
> "non-standard, against all convention" but IMHO they work well enough to
> overcome any such objection.
> 
> Would any of these ideas work for your implementation?
> 
> 
> Maris
> 
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