Hi Jay, On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Jay Smith <j...@jaysmith.com> wrote: > But... I am not sure we are speaking of the same behavior / application. > > I _am_ speaking of the pneumonics in dialogs that open as the result of > some action. Your pneumonics amuse me. They are mnemonics.
> > I am _not_ speaking of accessing the main menus of programs (for which > you _do_ need to use the ALT key). I know. You were quite clear before, and I was not at all confused about what you meant. > > Every Windows program I have ever used, from Win311 to Win95* to Win98* > to WinME* to W2Kpro* to WinXPpro* [The * o/s are currently installed and > available to me in virtualized form for testing and verification] did as > I expect.... they DO accept the use of single letter pneumonics in those > types of dialogs. The same has been true for RedHat Linux and SCO > Unixware that I have used. > > I have only a few months of using Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy) Linux / KDE , it > also seems to be true there and in the program I am using right now, > Thunderbird Mail, it is true. This is on the very same system on which > I am using Gimp. Well, perhaps this is a configurable aspect to GTK ( I don't remember very much about RHL but I'd guess some of the apps would be GTK+ based) If so, I'd be interested to try this behaviour. (the other option -- more likely to my mind -- is that the RHL guys patched the GUI libraries to change this behaviour) > > (If I try to close the message I am currently writing without first > saving it, it will present a dialog and allow me to use single character > pnuemonics without having to use the ALT key -- except that of the three > choices, only two of them have pneumonics; a bug I need to report.) > > What does your Gimp do and what are you running it on? I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 myself (no desktop environment -- ie. not Gnome or KDE or even XFCE, just the window manager 'awesome') What my GIMP does has already been addressed in a previous mail. In case there was any lack of clarity, ALT+<letter> is the only way I can activate mnemonics. This is true for almost all apps I've tried, not just GTK+ apps. The exceptions are applications like Grafx2, which completely implement their own GUI system. David _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list Gimp-user@lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user
