Le 06/10/2017 à 08:28, Marco Ciampa a écrit : > On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 08:07:58PM +0200, jp charras wrote: > [...] >> For instance for Eeschema: >> Ctrl+W does nothing (as expected) and 'W' is the hotkey and starts a wire >> (if the wire tool is not >> active it is activated) >> >> How the accelerator keys are displayed in menus? >> With the patch and for this example the menu should be: >> Wire W > > I really LOVE this...
Me too! But it does not work well on OSX. > > the thing is that is not always possible to keep the same accelerator key > used in english in some other language because the translated string not > always contains the char used for the acc key. Some non ascii languages, > Japanese for example, not having _any_ correspondence with english have > to keep the acc keys in ellipses - horrible but the only sensible choice. > Aaaand all this also means that: > > 1) if the acceleration key is changed in the nationalized version and it > is mentioned in the docs, translators have to check for possible changes > in the nationalized version > > 2) program translators have to check for possible accelerator keys conflicts > > IMHO: I would keep only the hot keys and throw away all the accelerator > keys at once... accelerator keys are a pain in the neck and work > effectively (= are truly useful) only in the english version... > > -- > > > Marco Ciampa Accelerator keys are not ellipses, and are not related to a letter or a word in a menu. No need to have a word containing the accelerator. Moreover accelerator keys are editable by users in Kicad. Most of time the accelerator is not even a printable key (Fx, Alt X, Ctrl+Shift+S ... ). -- Jean-Pierre CHARRAS _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
