Issue 7570

Summary:	Keyboard shortcut for single copy duplications
Product:	Draw	Reporter:	aaime <andrea.aime>
Component:	code	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	ACCEPTED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P4	CC:	issues, lohmaier, oooqa
Version:	OOo 1.0.1	Keywords:	oooqa, rfe_eval_ok, usability
Target Milestone:	AOO Later
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Linux, all
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description aaime 2002-09-07 14:56:07 UTC

I can see that in Draw there's a dialog to  
get an array of copies of selected objects. That 
is fine, but it's a little complicated if you 
only want a single copy. In Powerpoint and other 
office programs I can get a duplicate of the selection 
by simply pressing CTRL-D: easy and fast. Assigning 
a shortcut to the dialog box doesn't solve the problem, 
since it's a little bit disturbing (it's more an usability 
issue than a missing feature...).

Comment 1 prgmgr 2002-09-08 07:01:23 UTC

Andrea, thanks again for your suggestions.

Comment 2 wolframgarten 2002-09-10 11:15:35 UTC

Reassigned to Falko.

Comment 3 lohmaier 2003-08-04 18:28:32 UTC

Why not just using the combo <ctrl>+c, <ctrl>+v?

Comment 4 falko.tesch 2003-09-29 14:48:12 UTC

It is too complicate to duplicate objects.
Instead of invoking the dialogue (Edit - Duplicate) we should use this
entry to just duplicate the exsiting object (assign CTRL+D as hotkey). 
To access the old dialogue we will add a new menu entry "Edit -
Duplicate options..." (CTRL+SHIFT+D hot key)

Comment 5 falko.tesch 2003-09-29 14:48:54 UTC

started

Comment 6 nsydenham 2006-02-22 17:21:57 UTC

This feature would seem to be covered by the simple Ctrl-C followed by Ctrl-V
key combination. A somewhat related issue is how objects are added to the
drawing. If you are adding a number of boxes and connecting arrows it is
tiresome to have to keep clicking the icon you want on the Drawing toolbar.
There should be a shortcut to reselect the last tool used.

Comment 7 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:58:14 UTC

To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".