Hi Team, iDrop some wisdom today. Let’s make the keyboard “i” a default shortcut for an eyedropper. Currently selecting the “i” when element is selected gives us the same thing as with selecting the “h” – a prototype noodle. …no need; “h” for noodle, “i” for eyedropper.
Current flow: select rectangle → click on the small circle for color → look with your eyes for the small eyedropper icon → move the mouse over there and click.
We have long-standing shortcut for this — Ctrl+C (“c” for color) — which works as you’d hope it would. I get that this isn’t “I” but as you point out, that’s already used for prototyping interactions. Sure, we have “h” but the reason we have both is because any time we took either away, someone complained. Shortcuts are one of these areas where you can’t win, unfortunately.
Wow! Thanks, I only discovered ctrl+c now! Eyedropper is one of those tools you don’t use that often, so it perfectly fine. Just felt like there is a waste of a shortcut by using both the i and h for the same thing.
Additionally, one idea…your new custom tooltips in Beta are great. Would be cool to have them all-around the tool. So, when hovering, say, eyedropper icon in the color picker, instead of showing mac’ native tooltip, you could have your custom one which can display text + keyboard shortcut.
Believe me, we feel the same. In an ideal world we’d kill one (probably h) but we have this weirdly even split of people who find both absolutely essential. We tried removing both individually during different betas a year or two ago and it was enough to put us off trying again.
Thanks! Yeah, ideally we’d show those everywhere. A fair bit of work, though. Purely because they’re custom. But we do have a ticket somewhere to add shortcuts to all the regular tooltips (we have a nice mechanism to do that easily, but the sheer amount of them means it’s still a bit of work).
…no need; “h” for noodle, “i” for eyedropper.
…but i guess the muscle memory is hard to change.