On 8/3/2015 1:02 PM, Chris Pavlina wrote: > 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 >
While your logic make sense, my preference is to keep the mnemonics, fix any duplicates, and add the missing ones in any offending dialogs. I realize on some complex dialogs, it can be difficult to set unique mnemonics but that's pretty rare. There are still a lot of us old timers around who prefer our keyboards over reaching for the mouse whenever possible. I know it's passe and quaint but I'm not ready to give it up just yet :) _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
