Re: Hotkeys in po (fwd)

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net> writes:

> Such a tool must work at the UI level.  YaST2 (coming with SuSE Linux
> 8.0) has such a feature; in case of duplicates it will even try to
> reassign the accelerators.  I don't know whether Qt/KDE or GTK/GNOME
> can already do something similar.  Some time ago there was a discussion
> about a bonobo component able to check and to assign accelerators;
> IIRC, this discussion happened on the Gnumeric mailing list.

GTK+-2.0 handles duplicate mnemonics in a way that instead of
activating the mnemonic widget it moves focus to the first matching
mnemonic widget and then cycles focus along the matching widgets for
subsequent presses of the mnemonic key. You can then use Enter to
activate the focused widget. This can be seen in action in testgtk.

That said, duplicate mnemonic are not as evil as one might thing since
the toolkit handles the problem very well.


Salut, Sven