Hi, The keyboard mnemonics (underlined letters) in the eeschema and libedit config boxes are a bit messy. There is at least one conflict (two items sharing L), and many items missing mnemonics.
I could easily patch this, but I'd rather discuss: perhaps they should be removed? It is not usual to have mnemonics in large, complicated dialogs like this - they're not particularly useful there, and they are error-prone as the current state demonstrates. People forget to add them, or miss conflicts. Mnemonics are much more useful in dialogs that are used frequently like text edit dialogs, where a user might want, for example, to jump quickly to the "text size" field. With so many options, nobody is going to remember the mnemonics anyway (note what "mnemonic" means: it's a memory aid!), and it doesn't save any time when one has to squint at all the options to find the underlined letter. Of course the possibility for inconsistency goes even farther: I haven't even checked the localizations to see how they behave. Anybody else in favor of just removing them from these two dialogs? The pcbnew and modedit dialogs already do not use them, and most other GUI applications that I checked now also do not use them in their Preferences boxes. -- Chris _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
