Re: Key equivalents for non-menu items
Re: Key equivalents for non-menu items
- Subject: Re: Key equivalents for non-menu items
- From: John Joyce <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 17:25:06 +0900
On Feb 16, 2011, at 1:58 PM, Randy Widell wrote:
> On 2/15/11 8:20 PM, email@hidden wrote:
>> On Feb 15, 2011, at 7:36 PM, Randy Widell wrote:
>>
>>> I would like to have a keyboard shortcut that tags a location on the waveforms at the location of the mouse cursor. These commands do not make any sense in the main menu...they could go there, but they would be clutter.
>> Why do you think they wouldn't make sense in the main menu? That's where we put them in SoundEdit 16.
>>
>> A design point: you should not have any operations that can't be invoked using a mouse. So you should have a button or menu for these commands of yours.
>>
>> _murat
> Given the number of tags users add over several hundred pages, it is much faster to just point with the mouse, hit a key, and have the software enter a tag with a default length that can be modified later if need be. If all the keyboard shortcuts for adding/deleting tags and paging are single letters/numbers grouped for one hand, that leaves the other hand free to point.
>
> They'll go into context menus for sure, but no one would use them in the main menu.
One thing Mac users frequently do is use the menu bar as a source of keyboard shortcuts.
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