Re: [Alphacocoa-devel] [alphacocoa:tickets] #133 undo / redo

[Sylvain L. <syl...@un...>]

My opinion is that it is one of the nice feature of Alpha and I should have found that Redo menu. Plus, it is the very standard shortcut for it.

I also feel that it is reasonable to expect a new user to learn 4-5 key features of a new app that are really useful and pervasive, and in order to use Alpha one have to learn, for instance, that (1) in order to insert the « tab » char you have to use alt-tab and that (2) « paired functions » are (i) linked to the same menu entry dynamically changed by alt and/or (ii) have the same shortcut modulo the alt modifier, and so on.

However, maybe undo/redo should be treated differently because:
- it is very standard in every app to have the two functions as the first two items in the Edit menu
- it is not the alt modifier, and there are few cases where the shift key change dynamically the menu (I found « Sort Lines »~« Sort paragraph » in « Text » menu and « Find Next »~« Find Previous » in « Search » Menu. « Find previous » is also a very basic functionality that one may feel frustrating not to found in the first place. Again this is the standard shortcut, I guess I found it because I did _not_ search it... in the menu). Maybe dynamic menu could be limited to « alt » and the three shift-modified menu items treated as static menu?

Best,
Sylvain

> Le 9 mai 2017 à 18:53, Bernard Desgraupes <bde...@us...> a écrit :
> 
> There is indeed a preference to disable the dynamic menus and have all the menu items displayed simultanelously. It really makes some menus quite big and navigation more complicated. My feeling is that the menus are already big enough in their dynamic state but I'd be glad to hear other opinions.
> Anyway, the preference is Use Dynamic Menus in the Menus panel of Alpha ↣ Preferences ↣ Global Preferences.
> 
> [tickets:#133] undo / redo
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> Status: open
> Created: Tue May 09, 2017 07:47 AM UTC by Sylvain Loiseau
> Last Updated: Tue May 09, 2017 01:14 PM UTC
> Owner: nobody
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> This is rather a RFE : do you think it could be possible to have a "redo" command together with the "undo" ?
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