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

[Bernard D. <bde...@or...>]

> Le 10 mai 2017 à 09:10, Sylvain Loiseau <syl...@un...> a écrit :
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> 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?
> 

Excellent suggestions. Quite convincing. I’ll implement them.
Cheers,
Bernard