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Shortcut Guide to display shortcuts for Power Toys
Description of the new feature / enhancement
Shortcut Guide displays shortcuts to enabled features.
Scenario when this would be used?
Powerful features of PowerToys can only activated via shortcut (Run, Color Picker, Fancy Zones, Quick Accent, Ruler ...) but these shortcuts are only discoverable from settings panel.
Such enhancement would make user experience better and increase engagement.
Supporting information
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I like this idea. Some of the PowerToys that I have enabled, I use rarely enough that I don't always remember their respective shortcuts off the top of my head, so this would help me in those situations. Just to clarify though, are you wanting another shortcut guide? (separate from the existing shortcut guide) or are you suggesting that a list of shortcuts for currently enabled PowerToys be added to the existing shortcut guide?
Ideally it would be added to existing one:
- Less things for users to remember.
- Leads to serendipitous discovery or at least reminder of of those features by end user.
- More stable code, lesser moving parts.
What about putting them on the right-click menu of the PowerToys icon in the system tray? From there they would hopefully be one click to start as well as show what the shortcut key is.
Allowing them to be started in this method would also mean that in scenarios where the user's hand is already on the mouse they don't have to break flow by moving the hand back to the keyboard to hit the shortcut (for two handed shortcuts anyway) and then back to the mouse to use the feature.
I don't like that... mainly it just doesn't feel right, or intuitive to me, but also there are a number of PowerToys shortcuts which wouldn't be very useful from a systray context menu. For example, how would the "Always on Top" functionality work when you had to click a system tray icon to activate it? the window you're trying to keep always on top no longer has focus, and thus won't be targeted correctly.
Not to say that it's necessarily a bad idea. Just not the right implementation for it. Perhaps PowerToys to offer a method for mouse activation of the keyboard shortcuts by accepting mouse input in the Shortcut Guide overlay? That seems more intuitive and useful to me. Especially since I just hold the Win key to open it, which doesn't require taking my hand off of the mouse. Either way, that suggestion should be in its own GitHub issue. And if it's done as I suggest, it'll need to wait till this suggestion gets sorted out.
Hi! We've identified this issue as a duplicate of another one that already exists on this Issue Tracker. This specific instance is being closed in favor of tracking the concern over on the referenced thread. Thanks for your report!
