Bug 159883 - In lowriter's Help Menu I want to see "Keyboard shortcuts"
Summary: In lowriter's Help Menu I want to see "Keyboard shortcuts"
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Documentation (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
7.4.7.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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: 159882 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Shortcuts-Accelerators
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Reported: 2024-02-25 17:42 UTC by Martin Guy
Modified: 2024-03-11 10:24 UTC (History)
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Description Martin Guy 2024-02-25 17:42:30 UTC
Description:
I'd like to study the keyboard shortcuts, and the first place I look for the list is in the "Help" tab. It doesn't seem to be there.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click Help

Actual Results:
No entry "Keyboard shortcuts"

Expected Results:
An entry "Keyboard shortcuts"


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
I assume it's in the [LibreOffice Help F1] but as it can be changed by the user, the manual probably tells you were else to go in the menus to find what the current keyboard shortcuts are - a bit long-winded when the point of keyboard shortcuts is to save typing and clicking.

Nope. When I click Libreoffice help, it opens firefox on  file:///usr/share/libreoffice/help/index.html and if you don't have libreoffice-java-common installed you just get a blank page. As keyboard shortcuts are part of the editor, not the manual, because they can be modified and are designed for speed, I think an entry in the Help menu taking you to them would be worth doing.
Comment 1 Julien Nabet 2024-02-25 17:46:55 UTC
*** Bug 159882 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Dieter 2024-03-10 15:32:22 UTC
Martin, you can customise shortcuts with Tools -> Customize and this is explained in help page. 

So I don't think, that a new entry in help menu is really needed, but we can ask dsign-tea of course.
Comment 3 V Stuart Foote 2024-03-10 16:57:07 UTC
(In reply to Dieter from comment #2)
Agree, the Tools -> Customize dialog fulfills both needs. Identifying the commands available to assign to Keyboard (but also the other UI elements) and showing the assignments already made.

The Help and Wiki articles, and module specific User Guides are also available.

No real advantage to crafting a "Keyboard shortcuts" entry on the Help menu, and a support/l10n tail to maintain if we were to do so.

IMHO => WF
Comment 4 Heiko Tietze 2024-03-11 10:24:44 UTC
We have different kind of shortcuts: those that are assigned to a UNO command and thereby listed with the command label in the menu, eg. View > Formatting Marks (Ctrl+F10). Some commands are not available in the main menu like "Multiselection On" (available in the status bar) and you can learn about this shortcut Shift+F8 (ridiculous assignment!) from the mentioned customization dialog. And there are hard-coded key combinations such as Ctrl+Q to close the application that requires to read the documentation (or being used to the shortcut). Learn more at https://books.libreoffice.org/en/GS74/GS7414-KeyboardShortcuts.html or at the more recently version at https://nextcloud.documentfoundation.org/s/JZPbqLcjYt4oayD. Seems to me as if the shortcuts are now located at the respective chapter.

The idea to have something like Help > Keyboard shortcuts listing all combinations sounds wrong to me as it would present way too many and unsorted results. At least not per inbuilt functionality but maybe per extension... I vaguely remember something similar built-in.

Anyway, forwarding the topic to documentation and resolving it as WF. Feel free to revert the state.