Re: GIMP menu items (was: Discussion topics for GU4DEC BoF)

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

Ole Laursen <olau@hardworking.dk> writes:

> In fact, if this is the case, AFAICS you must already have the same
> problem with the underscore accelerators in the English
> texts. Unless they are repeated in all menu paths that contains
> e.g. "/Edit", one of the strings has to be the 'master' that
> dictates how the Edit menu is going to look like.

the first menu entry creates the branch and there's code that extracts
the translation of the menu labels from the translated menu path. We
solve the problem with underscore accelerators by creating the menu
branch explicitely. GIMP doesn't use a lot of access keys for menus
yet since they collide with the ability to change keybindings on the
fly. We might decide to disable that feature and add more access keys
to our menus but this is still subject to discussion.

I had a quick look at the code today and I although I was confident
after reading Karl's mail, I'm now back to the point that the current
approach is still the best of all choices.


Salut, Sven