Thanks for your helpful reply, matiphas :)

On 22/06/2006, at 10:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Yes accerators can be modified, but the translator must pay  
> attention to their
> consistency (avoid twice the same accelerator in a menu roll, or in a
> dialog...)

Yes, of course. :)
>
>> Can these choices be overwritten by a custom keybindings file?
>
> No it's different.
> * The accelerators are linked to the undercored chars, and facilitate
> navigations in the menus/dialogs with the keyboard).
> * Shortcuts are linked to the key combinations (such ast Ctrl+Alt 
> +M....), they
> don't appear in the translatable strings, but are automatically  
> inserted in the
> interface at run time. They are not aimed at facilitating  
> navigation in menus,
> but they directly call a function/verb.

So this file simply shows the keybindings indicated by the underscore- 
preceded character?
>
>> If so, it's an intriguing opportunity, because for my language, at
>> least, positioning keyboard accelerators becomes extremely difficult,
>> since most of the language is accented vowels, often with combined
>> diacritics, and according to
>>
>> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104112
>> gtk can't handle any non-ASCII keyboard shortcuts. I don't know if
>> any other toolset handles them better.
>
> I think the best thing to do is :
> - install inkscape (this should be already done)
> - modify the accelerators in a temporay po file
> - compile the po file, and replace the original message file by the  
> result of
> the compilation of your temp po file in the inkscape directory tree  
> (i think
> it's in the locale directory)
> - launch inkscape, and see how it reacts with the new accelerators  
> and your
> locale keyboard.

I'll pass this on to my GNOME team leader, who is having this  
problem. I don't have the same keyboard layout, since I'm running Mac  
OSX: my layout allows single-key input for the characters:

ă â ê ô ư ơ đ

which are dead-key input on Linux layouts. So I'm not a good test  
subject. Until I found out about the differing layouts, I assigned  
keyboard shortcuts which would work with mine. Since by far the  
majority of free software users would run Linux, I need to work with  
the Linux layout(s). So my team leader and I have discussed this. He  
will want to test this situation.
>
> Hope it helps you,

Thanks. :)

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN



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