Re: Retiring app menus - planning for 3.32.0

[Alexandre Franke <afranke gnome org>]

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 9:47 PM Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net> wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-09-21 at 21:08 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> <snip>
> >   Going extra mile to “find” shortcut is never gonna fly.  Years ago,
> > we
> > had a perfect solution for discovering shortcuts  – relevant letters
> > were underlined in the menus.  In some cases underlining appeared
> > only
> > after Alt was pressed, which was less discoverable, but still many
> > times more easy to find than shortcuts popup easter egg.
> >   Please bring back underlined menu items.
>
> Those are not keyboard shortcuts, they're mnemonics, used for
> navigating menus using the keyboard, not launching keyboard shortcuts
> without opening the menu.
>
> Feel free to start a new discussion about those, but they're really not
> the topic.

And also they are actually not gone, so there is no discussion to even
have. Open Nautilus, press F10 for the menu to open, press Alt,
mnemonics are underlined as expected.

-- 
Alexandre Franke
GNOME Hacker