Keyboard combos in menus don't look very keyboardy
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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| Ayatana Design |
Undecided
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Otto Greenslade | ||
| gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
| light-themes (Ubuntu) |
Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: light-themes
In Light theme menus, the only difference in appearance between a keyboard combo and the rest of a menu item is that the keyboard combo is less saturated.
It's possible that a keyboard combo could be more obvious, more understandable, and less distracting, if it is presented as something that looks more like keys.
For example, the "Ctrl++" keyboard combo for zooming in on something could be presented as [Ctrl] [+].
Changed in ayatana-design: | |
assignee: | nobody → Otto Greenslade (otto-chaotic) |
Adolfo Jayme (fitojb) wrote : | #1 |
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote : | #2 |
I haven't surveyed it (though I guess neither have you). But if I had a dollar for every person to whom I've pointed out keyboard shortcuts in menus, who has said "Oh, is that what those things are?", I'd have enough for a good meal.
Andrea Cimitan (cimi) wrote : | #3 |
I don't have a won't fix for this, but it's a gtk+ bug
Changed in light-themes (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Opinion |
status: | Opinion → Invalid |
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote : | #4 |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
Changed in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Greg Merchan (gregory-merchan) wrote : | #5 |
U+20E3 for combining enclosing keycap
U+21E7 for Shift
U+2387 for Alt
U+2388 for Control (This is now feature on many keyboards since MS adopted it.)
So, Shift+Ctrl+S could look like ⇧⎈S or ⇧⃣⎈⃣S⃣ (I wonder how that will look on launchpad once I post the comment.)
Home, Escape, function keys, etc. are trickier.
The key combinations have to look 'keyboardy' in order to be more understandable? I don't think so... I believe they are obvious enough.