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Bug 777401 - Keyboard pane's "Set Shortcut" dialog gives no clue how to disable a shortcut
Keyboard pane's "Set Shortcut" dialog gives no clue how to disable a shortcut
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Keyboard
3.22.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Rui Matos
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2017-01-17 15:59 UTC by Stephan Bergmann
Modified: 2017-05-10 23:45 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
keyboard: Inform that 'backspace' is the clear key (1.89 KB, patch)
2017-05-01 23:53 UTC, Georges Basile Stavracas Neto 		none Details | Review
keyboard: Inform that 'backspace' is the clear key (1.89 KB, patch)
2017-05-02 12:28 UTC, Georges Basile Stavracas Neto 		none Details | Review
keyboard: Inform that 'backspace' is the clear key (2.03 KB, patch)
2017-05-10 23:44 UTC, Georges Basile Stavracas Neto 		committed Details | Review

Description Stephan Bergmann 2017-01-17 15:59:46 UTC 
At least with control-center-3.22.1-2.fc25.x86_64:

Trying to disable one of the shortcuts, I was stuck:  Clicking a shortcut in the list opens a "Set Shortcut" dialog that states "Press Esc to cancel", but that only cancels the setting operation, doesn't disable the shortcut.  There was no clue that pressing backspace was what I looked for.

In the past, there presumably was such a hint, see "Backspace will clear the shortcut." mentioned in bug 672877 comment 4.
Comment 1 Georges Basile Stavracas Neto 2017-05-01 23:53:38 UTC 
Created attachment 350834 [details] [review]
keyboard: Inform that 'backspace' is the clear key

The Keyboard shortcut editor dialog gives no clue on how
to disable a shortcut, and users were confused by this
lack of information.

Fix that by informing the user about the Backspace role
when editing a shortcut.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2017-05-02 09:04:21 UTC 
Review of attachment 350834 [details] [review]:

That looks fine. Can you get somebody from #design to double-check the wording?

If that's from mockups or you already did check, consider this acn.
Comment 3 Georges Basile Stavracas Neto 2017-05-02 12:28:26 UTC 
Created attachment 350868 [details] [review]
keyboard: Inform that 'backspace' is the clear key

The Keyboard shortcut editor dialog gives no clue on how
to disable a shortcut, and users were confused by this
lack of information.

Fix that by informing the user about the Backspace role
when editing a shortcut.
Comment 4 Georges Basile Stavracas Neto 2017-05-10 23:44:26 UTC 
Created attachment 351590 [details] [review]
keyboard: Inform that 'backspace' is the clear key

Improve wording and wrap the label.
Comment 5 Georges Basile Stavracas Neto 2017-05-10 23:45:29 UTC 
Attachment 351590 [details] pushed as 7c405d7 - keyboard: Inform that 'backspace' is the clear key