On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Alexandre Franke <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > With the GMenu transition happening during the 3.5 cycle, we have seen > many applications remove their accelerators (that _ characters that > allows you to select a menu item using the alt key) from the menu > items that were moved to the app menu (the menu you get when clicking > the application name in the top bar in GNOME Shell). The reason behind > such removals seems to be that GNOME Shell doesn't display nor enable > accelerators in the app menu.
To avoid unnecessary confusion, lets agree on terms here. In a menuitem like Bl_oatpad Ctrl-X The _o is a mnemonic. Accelerator is the name we use to refer to the Ctrl-X. > However, in other environments, the app menu is consolidated and > displayed in the menu bar of the window as the first item. In this > context, the accelerators could be very useful and losing them should > be considered a regression. > > Is there a technical reason that pushes removal of the accelerators, > such as a bad GNOME Shell behaviour when they are present? Will GNOME > Shell use accelerators in app menus someday? That may be seen as an > accessibility feature. Is there by the way a keyboard shortcut to open > the app menu? There is no technical problem with including them. The bloatpad example that we ship with GTK+ to demonstrate app menu usage has mnemonics. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
