Refined-github: Add shortcut for hiding a comment as "Resolved"

[sindresorhus]

GitHub introduced support for hiding comments, but it requires many clicks to hide a comment as "Resolved". Since that's the most common use-case for hiding comments, it would be nice to make it faster.

Maybe a keyboard shortcut, so you hold a certain key down while clicking the comment?

// @jamiebuilds

[fregante]

Comments can’t be navigated via keyboard so the keyboard shortcut would feel weird. If GitHub’s menus support sub-menus we can just move the actions directly in the sub-menu of “hide” so they’d be one-click.

[sindresorhus]

@bfred-it That's why I suggested holding a key down while mouse clicking the comment. But your suggestion would work too. Maybe even both?

[fregante]

holding a key down while mouse clicking the comment

Clicking where? That's an unusual interaction

[fregante]

The dropdown doesn't seem to support sub-menus. Maybe we can give this the same treatment we gave to the review box:

Drop the drop-down, show 5 buttons (aligned top right), sort of like:

[sindresorhus]

Clicking where? That's an unusual interaction

Anywhere inside the comment box.

Drop the drop-down, show 5 buttons (aligned top right), sort of like:

Yes, looks great!

[jamiebuilds]

You could go even further by expanding the dropdown:

Maybe could be improved with some styling

[jamiebuilds]

Comments can’t be navigated via keyboard so the keyboard shortcut would feel weird.

btw that sounds like it'd be a great feature to add

[sindresorhus]

You could go even further by expanding the dropdown:

I thought about that, but it makes the menu very large. Better to optimize for the common use-case instead.

[fregante]

Perhaps the dropdown code can be abused to link "hide" to a new dropdown that would replace that. I'm not a fan of my own mockup's style 😄

[tgolen]

I would love to see this be done, so I'd like to re-ignite this conversation. I kind of opened a duplicate issue with an alternate proposal. I think doing something (anything) to improve this would have huge value, even if it's not perfect.

What about expanding the first dropdown to have all the hide options in it, and then have that dropdown menu display on hover (which removes one extra click)?

Even just expanding the first dropdown would be a great place to start, and we can iterate on it past that.

[yakov116]

@bfred-it was there a reason you did not implement this?

Drop the drop-down, show 5 buttons (aligned top right), sort of like:

[fregante]

@bfred-it was there a reason you did not implement this?

Time. Interest. Feel free to