Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Application keyboard shortcuts
Raised as a usability problem by 4 people on Hacker News over 7 years (2016–2022), in 4 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Shortcuts are hard to discover and inconsistent, causing conflictsUnreviewed
20162026- Most apps lack customizable shortcuts, forcing users to learn fixed ones2022-09-05
- Shortcuts are hard to discover and inconsistent across apps, causing conflicts2021-06-08
- Shortcuts chosen by developers conflict with each other and with desktop environment bindings, so users must rebind them2017-05-11
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 4 complaints
- Most apps lack customizable shortcuts, forcing users to learn fixed ones2022-09-05
- Shortcuts are hard to discover and inconsistent across apps, causing conflicts2021-06-08
- Shortcuts chosen by developers conflict with each other and with desktop environment bindings, so users must rebind them2017-05-11
- Rarely used shortcuts require digging through three levels of menus and dialogs2016-10-30