Re: [evolution-patches] Mnemonic Fix in Edit Menu

[<anna ximian com>]

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Pasting in the right subject now, so that maybe you guys will read this in
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again, apologies.
Anna


> Hi Dobey, Michael, Ettore and others:
>
> I appreciate you working on this, Dobey-- but (and you knew there would
> be a but, no?) using "_H" for the accelerator for "Select Thread" is
> absolutely not in keeping with the HIG. I know that several of the other
> accelerators in that menu are also not well-hig-ified, and that is
> something we should fix. Might as well get this one right while we're
> working on it, instead of needing to revisit it later.
>
> (To check out for yourself what the HIG has to say on the matter, see:
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/userinput.html#keyboard
> ; scroll to the "Choosing Access Keys" section.)
>
> (The 'h' in 'thread' is the middle letter in a consonant trigraph,
> rendering it quasi-silent-- it has no actual sound of its own in that
> context. Accelerator letters are supposed to be easy to remember by
> virtue of the sounds they make in the label in question.)
>
> Why not just change the accelerator for that label to "_S"?
> That would be more HIG-able, and it isn't used elsewhere in the menu..
>
> cheers,
> Anna