Re: Unwanted behavior with menu item accelerators

[Calum Benson <calum benson ireland sun com>]

January Weiner 3 wrote:

> Uhm, why is that unwanted? I have found that this is one of the nicest
> and user-friendly features of gtk+; 

For a blind user, however, or even anyone used to using the keyboard to
navigate around menus on MS Windows (where you would typically press
"Alt+F" followed by "O" for File>Open, for example), it's a complete
nightmare...

> especially because it lets you -- as a programmer -- easily save the preferences 
> upon exit and read upon start.

Hmm, interesting definition of "user-friendly"  :o)

Anyway, I gather this feature is going to be disabled by default in
GNOME 2.0, although there will be a way of switching it on for those
apps/users who want it.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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