On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 13:34 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote: > If you replace the & with an underscore _ character, do you get the > exact opposite problem, and the accelerator is set in GNOME? If so, > I'd say they are both broken. The problem is that in GTK+, _ is used > to specify an accelerator, and in QT, a & is used. So, when you > create a menu item with the special character, it gets misinterpreted. > > This is really a per-toolkit problem, I suspect. If the special > character were ^, the same problem would presumably still exist, were > you to put it in the name string. I would test that GNOME isn't broken > when using _ also though, first. > > If so, you need to file bugs against both menu implementations, I > suppose. Perhaps the spec also needs to say that the strings need to > be escaped somehow. >
I'd say its a bug to do any special interpretation of this string, if it is not specified in the spec. Thus I don't see what a bug against the gnome implementation would complain about. Matthias _______________________________________________ xdg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xdg
