Feature request: display keyboard shortcuts as tooltips

Right now it is not possible to learn keyboard shortcuts right from the CKEditor interface. We have to search the web for some "cheat sheet". Keyboard shorcuts shouldn't be hidden like that, they should be displayed in plain sight where the users can readily find them, and even learn that they exist if they don't know about them. The tooltips of the toolbar buttons are the best place for this. When we hover on a button, we get a line explaining what the button does, and a second line showing us what the corresponding keyboard shortcut is, so next time we can just use the keyboard shortcut instead of moving the cursor to the button.

Wed, 09/03/2014 - 09:48

Anna

Joined: 14/12/2010

Posts: 1369

The Alt+0 keyboard shortcut

The Alt+0 keyboard shortcut opens the Accessibility Instructions dialog window with all shortcuts available in your editor configuration explained, so there's no need to search for other cheat sheets...

Toolbar tooltips would get too polluted if you incuded such information there. Besides, it would be helpful for the first time you see them, but could get quite annoying in the long run, don't you think?

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Tue, 10/21/2014 - 05:52

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geoffm

Joined: 19/09/2013

Posts: 3

please be logical

If I want to learn a keyboard shortcut, I hover the cursor on the corresponding button, expecting to find it there.
You can't logically expect a user to guess that he will find the keyboard shorcuts by hitting Alt+0
Tooltips of keyboard shortcuts aren't pollution, they are useful information.
I don't see how a tooltip could become "annoying in the long run". People don't hover the cursor on buttons all the time just for the fun of watching the screen. They do it to display the button's function or to learn its keyboard shortcut, then they don't go back. What's annoying about a tooltip? Why would a keyboard shortcut be more annoying than a button name in a tooltip?
Professional software like MS Office display the keyboard shortcuts in the tooltips, and it has proven extremely useful to learn the keyboard shortcuts, much more efficient than some cheat sheet hidden somewhere.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 09:14

Anna

Joined: 14/12/2010

Posts: 1369

Thank you for your feedback,

Thank you for your feedback, we will consider it. Meanwhile, I can confirm that some of the confusion stems from the fact that keyboard shortcuts are not documented for CKEditor 4. It will be improved this week, with a new documentation article and a new sample. Thanks again!

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Tue, 10/21/2014 - 16:15

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3737

You should test MS Office for

You should test MS Office for 5 minutes to check how easy is to find out what each button does and how to use it faster with the keyboard just by hovering them.

Tue, 10/21/2014 - 19:48

reinmar

Joined: 24/08/2012

Posts: 631

Indeed, it would be great if

Indeed, it would be great if CKEditor displayed keystrokes in the tooltips and menu positions (in this case only in the context menu). I wonder how hard it would be to implement this feature. Definitely worth checking.

Piotrek (Reinmar) Koszuliński
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