I'm really glad to have the new Selection Menu. It helps doing things with the mouse only, without using the keyboard. However, some workflows are really automatic for me now, such as highlighting text by using the keyboard shortcuts. Those won't work while the selection menu is up (it seems the menu disables - or takes full focus and hasn't turned on a method to enable - keyboard interaction, as parallel threads about Ctrl-C etc seem to indicate).
To recreate, assume highlighting shortcuts have been defined, such as Y for yellow highlighter.
- Select text: once the mouse button is released, the Selection Menu will come up.
- Press a highlighting shortcut key such as Y: nothing happens
Expected outcome: text is highlighted (yellow)
Rationale why this bug should be fixed: yes I know that I can use the Selection Menu for some of this, but actually Logos trained me for years to select and hit Y once I feel like highlighting - this is one user interaction. Moreover, I use more highlighting shortcuts than the six highlights the Selection menu will offer - for example the Gray or Green highlighters (marked red below) are not offered in the Selection Menu.
Workarounds exist but are cumbersome: Obviously I need to retain the selection and focus, but make the Selection menu disappear - I found two ways for this:
- have the Highlighting tool showing and use the mouse to highlight there - mouse-clicking in the Highlighting tool will disable the Selection menu and the way Highlighting is programmed will make sure the selected text is highlighted. I used this for the blue highlight in my screenshot. But this is slow and defies the use of highlighting shortcuts at all.
- click to a place in the current tab that has no function, like the yellow area in my screenshot. This will make the Selection Menu disappear, retain the selection and keep the focus on this tab, so now the keyboard shortcuts will work - I used this for the yellow highlight.
Please fix this!
