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Most things in Linux too - all DEs I have tried have lots of keyboard shortcuts and so do a lot of applications. The problem is that they are less discoverable
by graemep 5mo ago
Most things in Linux too - all DEs I have tried have lots of keyboard shortcuts and so do a lot of applications.
The problem is that they are less discoverable and you need to make and effort to get used to using them instead of point and click.
- CalRobert 5mo agoThey used to be discoverable with mnemonics (underlined letters) but those have been dead nearly thirty years…
- p-t 5mo agothese still exist on windows though? you just hold alt
- MarsIronPI 5mo agoGTK (and QT I do believe) also support this on GNU/Linux.
- foobarbecue 5mo agoOnly works for like 20% of the menus though. I remember alt shortcuts reliably being on every single menu in early Windows (95? ME? XP?)
- CalRobert 5mo agoHah, I was thinking 3.1…
- foobarbecue 5mo agoYeah I only used it a little bit so couldn't remember if it had the "hold alt to see shortcuts" thing
- thewebguyd 5mo agoThey died when people stopped using native toolkits and started making everything an electron app. Economics be damned, if you're going to make a native app, use the OS provided toolkits.
- accrual 5mo agoI remember using TweakUI to enable "always show underline for shortcut key" because that genuinely felt like it should be a default for better usability.
- saint_yossarian 5mo agoI wouldn't say they're dead, just more hidden (e.g. GTK4 only shows them when you hold Alt). AFAIK most toolkits still support them, but app developers also have to actually define them.