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User problem: ----------------------------------- Discoverability of keyboard shortcuts is limited. User need: ----------------------------------- The user needs to be able to easily discover the keyboard shortcut for specific actions. Product requirement: ----------------------------------- Create a short document outlining the shortcuts in the IDE. Visualize the most important shortcuts. Provide suggestions along the way (e.g. tooltips, status bar hint, etc.)
I think docs is working on something like this already. However, one suggestion: Write some code that will generate a nice HTML doc dynamically with all of the shortcuts in the IDE and what they do. On the welcome screen, in a visible way (or when the user does something that could be done more efficiently with a shortcut the first time?), offer to print a "NetBeans quick reference card" from this document. Hack factor: 0 Difficulty: 2 (out of 10) Cookbook: - Design of card - Code to fetch all shortcuts - Design for notification/integration w/ welcome screen Issues: - Where to get a good description? If not available in a resource bundle, can that be changed for the future?
I'm all for this feature. One complication is figuring out how the order of the shortcuts displayed would be determined and how this should be handled for editions other than NetBeans.
I think it's already done , use main menu Help | Keyboard Shortcuts CArd
Marking as fixed as there is a keyboard shortcut card. If further enhancements are requested, a different issue should be filed.