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Re: shortcuts on tooltips

 

We have a tooltip showing all of these in Precise. It shows up when
you hold the super key.

On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:50, Pedro Bessa <pedbessa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> unity shows all shortcuts to a user when the user holds Super,
> but users are unlikely to try Super+a, then Super+b, then Super+c
> until Super+z, because if they do something wrong, they can't go back,
> because Unity has no Ctrl+Z, so they're unlikely to hold Super at all.
>
>
> I want to mouse over the trash icon and see how to open the trash folder
> using my keyboard.
> A tooltip would show "Trash (Super+T)".
>
> Then, I want to mouse over Search and see how to launch Dash and focus the
> Search bar using my keyboard.
> A tooltip would show "Dash Search (Super)".
>
> Then, I want to mouse over More Applications and see how to launch Dash and
> open More Applications using my keyboard.
> A tooltip would show "More Applications (Super+A)".
>
> So, I want to mouse over any Unity thing and see how to bring it to life
> using my keyboard.
> A tooltip would show "the unity thing (the unity shortcut thing)".
>
> Best regards,
> Pedro Bessa
>
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