Re: Use of accelerators (mnemonics) in app menus
On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Alexandre Franke alexandre.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, With the GMenu transition happening during the 3.5 cycle, we have seen many applications remove their accelerators (that _ characters that allows you to select a menu item using the alt key) from the menu items that were moved to the app menu (the menu you get when clicking the application name in the top bar in GNOME Shell). The reason behind such removals seems to be that GNOME Shell doesn't display nor enable accelerators in the app menu. To avoid unnecessary confusion, lets agree on terms here. In a menuitem like Bl_oatpad Ctrl-X The _o is a mnemonic. Accelerator is the name we use to refer to the Ctrl-X. However, in other environments, the app menu is consolidated and displayed in the menu bar of the window as the first item. In this context, the accelerators could be very useful and losing them should be considered a regression. Is there a technical reason that pushes removal of the accelerators, such as a bad GNOME Shell behaviour when they are present? Will GNOME Shell use accelerators in app menus someday? That may be seen as an accessibility feature. Is there by the way a keyboard shortcut to open the app menu? There is no technical problem with including them. The bloatpad example that we ship with GTK+ to demonstrate app menu usage has mnemonics. ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
Use of accelerators (mnemonics) in app menus
Hi, With the GMenu transition happening during the 3.5 cycle, we have seen many applications remove their accelerators (that _ characters that allows you to select a menu item using the alt key) from the menu items that were moved to the app menu (the menu you get when clicking the application name in the top bar in GNOME Shell). The reason behind such removals seems to be that GNOME Shell doesn't display nor enable accelerators in the app menu. However, in other environments, the app menu is consolidated and displayed in the menu bar of the window as the first item. In this context, the accelerators could be very useful and losing them should be considered a regression. Is there a technical reason that pushes removal of the accelerators, such as a bad GNOME Shell behaviour when they are present? Will GNOME Shell use accelerators in app menus someday? That may be seen as an accessibility feature. Is there by the way a keyboard shortcut to open the app menu? What's even more confusing to us is that while some modules got rid of these accelerators, some others did not. We thus think that there's no technical barrier to have them and we'd like to have some consistency. Can we push module maintainers to have accelerators in their app menu? Regards. -- Alexandre Franke On behalf of the i18n team ___ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
