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Provide a Help menu that searches for all menu options #13174

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JasonWeill opened this issue Oct 3, 2022 · 2 comments
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Provide a Help menu that searches for all menu options #13174

JasonWeill opened this issue Oct 3, 2022 · 2 comments

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@JasonWeill
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Problem

Users might not know where a menu option is.

Proposed Solution

Provide a "Help" menu with a text box to search for commands that are present in other pull-down menus.

This could also be integrated by searching the input in the JupyterLab docs.

Additional context

macOS apps commonly have a "Help" menu which allows users to search for menu options:

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On hover, the macOS UI highlights the menu item in context:

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Google Docs also provides such a UI:

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@JasonWeill JasonWeill added enhancement status:Needs Triage Applied to new issues that need triage tag:Lumino labels Oct 3, 2022
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Triage notes: The pull-down menus are implemented in Lumino, so this might be added (as a reduced form of the command palette) in Lumino.

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Triage notes: The pull-down menus are implemented in Lumino, so this might be added (as a reduced form of the command palette) in Lumino.

I would prefer advertising and improving the command palette to address this.

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