Add "Help" entry to menu bar to show keyboard shortcuts dialog#148
Add "Help" entry to menu bar to show keyboard shortcuts dialog#148keysmashes wants to merge 3 commits into
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I think that realizing the menu is clickable is the biggest hurdle. It never occurred to me to click it until someone told me that it's possible on the issue tracker. Two ideas:
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We also need to update the changelog in this commit :) |
That lines up with the experience I heard which prompted this PR! It's certainly not a particularly common UI for terminal applications.
I was considering adding some note that disappears once you've opened a menu at least once, like this: but calling the menu entry
Honestly I made the change this way mostly because it was so easy, given the existing event to open the help popup. I think it would be possible to adjust
I was wondering about also adding an because at the moment, it's almost impossible for a user to figure out what's actually responsible for the thing they're seeing, unless they stumble across e.g. the single mention the Jujutsu docs make of scm-record. |
This should, hopefully, make it fractionally easier for people to discover how to actually do anything. (If they realise that the menu bar is clickable.)
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Adding an about section sounds like a great idea. That way people can direct their feedback here instead of the jj repo. Want to add that and update the menu item name? I think updating the name is the simplest thing to do for now since we don't have a config file or any obvious way to remember that the user has clicked the menu at some point. Edit: I forgot to say that the about section can be a separate commit / pr. It doesn't have to be done in this one. |

This should, hopefully, make it fractionally easier for people to discover how to actually do anything. (If they realise that the menu bar is clickable.)
Related: #25