Re: accel should be _accel in UI XML files

[Kjartan Maraas <kmaraas online no>]

> 
> Michael Meeks <michael helixcode com> writes:
> 
> > Hi Darin,
> > 
> > On Fri, 27 Oct 2000, Darin Adler wrote:
> > > Keyboard accelerators have to be translated along with the wording of
> > > menu item. Some of them might stay the same, but some might have to
> > > change.
> > 
> >     Strange, I have never considered this before. Kjartan can you
> > verify whether we have translated K/B shortcuts before ?
> > 
> >     I just ran gmc in spanish and got:
> > 
> >             Cerrar Ventana       Ctrl+W
> > 
> >     Hmm; so I suppose we could translate these, of course to a certain
> > extent we are helped by the _File accelerateor naming scheme that makes
> > menu navigation translatable.
> > 
> >     So; are foreign people just used to wierd keybindings ?
> 
> We discussed this at some length in the context of GTK+, and the
> what everybody told us is that they _didn't_ want the accelerators
> translated. (Meaning hotkeys, not underline shortcuts for menu
> navigation)
> 
> As I recall the rationals:
> 
>  - People are often quite familiar with the English accelerators,
>    and apparently Windows doesn't translate accelerators.
> 
>  - Accelerators are often pretty arbitrary in English to begin with,
>    dur to namespace limitations. To list the first 4 accelerators I can
>    thing of
> 
>    C-x cut
>    C-c copy
>    C-v paste
>    C-w close
>    C-x quit
> 
>   Only C-c corresponds directly
> 
I agree with Owen here. As long as we're only talking about
the examples above + a few other standard ones that are the
same across apps. I think the _Accel keys have to be translated
for obvious reasons (some letters might not be there in the
translated version). Is there a list of not-to-be-translated
keyboard shortcuts somewhere? If not maybe we need one?

Cheers
Kjartan