> On Oct 20, 2018, at 5:01 AM, Frank H. Ellenberger > <frank.h.ellenber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi Chris, > > Am 20.10.18 um 08:30 schrieb Chris Good: >> Hi Frank, >> >> In your edit of the gtk3 wiki [1], you added in part: >> >> === Circumvent Bad GTK3 Design decisions === >> ==== Get Visible Mnenomics Back ==== >> Since GTK3.10 the underlines of the mnenomics are only visible after you >> hovered the mouse over the element ''and'' pressed <code>alt</code>. >> >> In $SCOPE/gtk-3.0/settings.ini, add a line: >> >> <SyntaxHighlight lang="ini"> >> [Settings] >> # Visible Mnenomics >> gtk-menu-images = true >> </SyntaxHighlight> >> >> which I was glad to see as I had noticed mnemonics seemed to have >> disappeared from GC 3. > > while my current working area is testing translations and eventually get > the GUI closer to what I had thought is the HIG, I stumbled in this > changes in GTK. So I started, to write down, what I collected from the > internet. Some notes might be incomplete or outdated. So feel free to > improve them. > >> I tested setting ' gtk-menu-images = true' in settings.ini (Windows 10, >> GC3.1) and it doesn't seem to do anything for me. >> >> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.htm indicates >> gtk-menu-images >> gtk-auto-mnemonics >> gtk-enable-mnemonics >> have been deprecated since version 3.10. >> >> In Windows the behaviour I see is that the first time the right click >> transaction menu appears, mnemonics are NOT shown, but if you either: >> Go into a dialog, say Duplicate Transaction, a couple of times (with or >> without using the Alt key (mnemonic activator)) >> Or Go into a dialog, say Duplicate Transaction, and use the Alt key >> Or Use the Alt key in the right click transaction menu >> mnemonics are shown from then on in the right click transaction menu. >> >> Note for me, it is not needed to hover the mouse pointer over the element, >> just hold the Alt key for approx. half to 1 second. >> >> It seems to me that GTK3 wishes to remove any options for using mnemonics >> and just turn it on using the mnemonic activator key. >> Can anyone verify that or provide links that indicate how it should work? > > As you noted, the GTK manual is not very helpful. In other, secondary > sources I read the devs think, it is cluttering the appearance. If they > think, a cool look is more important than usability ... > > But probably John knows more about this decisions and alternative > approaches. > >> [1] >> https://code.gnucash.org/wiki/index.php?title=GTK3&diff=14720&oldid=14717 >> <https://code.gnucash.org/wiki/index.php?title=GTK3&diff=14720&oldid=14717> >> >> Regards, Chris Good
No, not really. I try to follow what’s going on but the places I’m lurking haven’t yielded much information for the last couple of years. Regards, John Ralls _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel