Re: [evolution-patches] bug+patch: 71089 Keybindings for view source/headers/normal mail messages

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

This is correct. The term "accelerator" is just confusing because people
will use it to mean either of "mnemonics" or "keybindings". It would be
nice if people just said "mnemonics" or "keybindings" instead, though.

-- dobey

On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 07:15 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-01-17 at 12:08 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > 
> > I thught every menu item and every input button/etc was supposed to
> > have them?
> > 
> > On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 20:07 -0500, JP Rosevear wrote: 
> > > On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 01:08 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > > > this is all changing for 2.2 anyway, so probably not worth accepting
> > > > this patch atm.
> > > 
> > > Its not certain its changing, but I don't really see a need for having
> > > accelerators here.  Accelerators should be reserved for frequent
> > > operations, and viewing the raw source of a message seems less than
> > > frequent to me.
> 
> I should say "keyboard shortcuts" not accelerator/mnemonic here.  Yes,
> every item should have an accelerator like Alt-V, M, S, but I don't
> think every item should have a keyboard shortcut, pd can correct me if
> I'm wrong though...
> 
> -JP