Add section in help explaining the use of the current set of hotkeys (GNA #4067)

[wesnoth-bugs]

Original submission by anonymous on 2005-04-15

Many players seem to live in ignorant bliss about the use of hotkeys, and this is aggravated by the fact that the MANUAL seems to be constantly out of date on this particular field.

IMO, this could be remedied by adding a help section going through and explaining in slightly wordier manner than the curt texts given in Preferences for what the hotkeys do.

Preferably this section should read off the current setting of hotkeys, and display that in help.

This section could be located under Gameplay.

(Reproduced on All)
Release: 0.9.0
Priority: 1 - Later
Severity: 2 - Minor

[wesnoth-bugs]

Modified on 2005-10-04

ott wrote:

See https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?func=detailitem&item_id=12697 for Savannah history.

[CelticMinstrel]

Waiting on #994.

[singalen]

An option for this one.

As wiki rightfully points out, different keyboard layouts can have different hotkeys. This should be mostly covered by help localization.

Plus, Mac has different hotkey system. Would be nice to make the hotkeys help depend on current platform.

[jostephd]

#994 has been replaced by #3653.

[CelticMinstrel]

However, it would be possible to implement this without #3653, if someone wanted to.

[jostephd]

Updated labels accordingly.

[hexagonrecursion]

the MANUAL seems to be constantly out of date

Solution: delete this information from the manual.

IMO, this could be remedied by adding a help section going through and explaining in slightly wordier manner than the curt texts given in Preferences for what the hotkeys do.

Having to look up documentation is poor user experience. A better option would be to fit all the relevant info into the UI somehow.

[Pentarctagon]

Would it be possible to instead just make the current hotkey rows in the preferences dialog have hover text with a more detailed description? Having to go all the way from the preferences (when not sure what something does) to the help page (to read the description of what said thing does) and then back to the preferences would take far too much time especially if there are multiple preferences they want to check.