[IxDA Discuss] keyboard shortcuts + contextual menus

[Peter Bagnall]

Fitts law also relates to movement of your arm, hand and fingers though! So if your hands are 
on the keyboard it's pretty inefficient to move one hand to the mouse, then perform a right 
mouse click, etc.

So shortcuts probably do make sense for some tasks, especially if they are mostly keyboard 
based tasks. For example, having shortcuts for tasks on selected text in a word processor or 
text editor makes good sense.

You can't just assume people work with one hand on the mouse all the time! For some tasks 
the mouse might be dominant, for others the keyboard.

Cheers
--Pete

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> Contextual menus leverage Fitts' Law pretty nicely (the fastest spot to
> click is the one where your mouse pointer is resting, so a
> single-right-click provides immediate access to the menu), so I'd say that
> it's simply unecessary to include shortcuts for right-click specific items -
> you can already get to the item very quickly and the shortcut would barely
> improve things. If, on the other hand, the contextual menu contained items
> that are duplicates of regular menus, I don't see any issue with displaying
> the shortcut.
> 
> -r-
> 
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> On 7/18/06, Michael Tuminello <mt at motiontek.com> wrote:
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> > Hi all -
> >
> > I was just wondering why there are no keyboard shortcuts for
> > contextual menus.
> >
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