Possibility of having shortcuts for some functionalities about ar5iv

[dginev]

Well, the problem is predictability - can we find what the least surprising keys would be for "Feeling lucky?" and "Report"?

At first I was even thinking of binding the left and right arrow to go to the previous/next article - but most arXiv authors wouldn't expect that, and they may instead want to horizontally scroll through e.g. a very wide table. So I dropped all thoughts of shortcuts.

Maybe something fun and exotic also works for feeling lucky - ctrl + ? where the question mark stands for "take me anywhere"

Something to think about... Thanks for joining in!

[p16i]

Well, the problem is predictability - can we find what the least surprising keys would be for "Feeling lucky?" and "Report"?

imho, it is probably quite challenging to find a common set of shotcuts; however, given the site is quite new, we might just pick a set of these shotcuts and educate the user somehow, e.g., using brackets
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For example, if one does leading-key + F, one activates the Feeling Lucky? functionality. The tricky part is which leading key to be used. Generally, I would try to avoid ctrl and alt because they are commonly used for the functionalities of OS and browsers. What do you think?

[dginev]

Right, well, I am still looking at what other platforms have done, which is what I'd like to stay close to if I'm to claim I tried to be "predictable".

For the previous/next buttons, I remembered that the youtube shortcuts bind Shift+P and Shift+N. This kind of convinces me using Shift is fine.

I still like the idea of Shift+? for the random "feeling lucky" navigation.

The conversion report really shouldn't need a shortcut, but maybe Shift+R for reporting an issue is sensible, as is Shift+X to go to the main arXiv page.

Also a Shift+C may be nice to toggle the color theme, would get quite handy if we get more than two -- then one can iterate through them.

I wouldn't mark that in the letters of the footer buttons, since it gets a bit harsh on the eyes. It may be better to pop-up a little modal legend with all possible shortcuts when shift is pressed and held?

[p16i]

I wouldn't mark that in the letters of the footer buttons, since it gets a bit harsh on the eyes. It may be better to pop-up a little modal legend with all possible shortcuts when shift is pressed and held?

I agree. I like the idea of the modal. Github has it, and you can use ? to activate the panel.

[dginev]

Github has it, and you can use ? to activate the panel.

Ha! It looks familiar, so I must have seen it before, but had totally forgotten github has such a handy modal. Yes, basically exactly that 🚀