Re: Understanding accelerators.

[Michael Cronenworth <mike cchtml com>]

On 10/07/2014 09:18 AM, Gergely Polonkai wrote:
> Mnemonics are discouraged by the HIG, and AFAIK they are not displayed by recent
> GTK versions.
>
>  From the user's perspective, I think there is no difference. However, if you
> are using GApplication/GtkApplication, it is easier to register accels, and you
> can even make them easily customizable for the users. I'm yet to find a good
> example on the Interwebs, but if you take a look at GNOME 3.14 apps, you will
> find some for sure.

It's quite humorous that no one responds to most queries on this list, but as 
soon as I do there are a handful of replies to point out how I'm wrong.

Mnemonics are not displayed by default, yes, as that's a stylistic preference of 
the theme you use and not a GTK default. Discouraged? This is news to me. I just 
ran through a handful of GNOME apps and they all use mnemonics. In fact... the 
GNOME HIG page *encourages* to "make shortcut keys as mnemonic as possible"[1].

Menu and mnemonic accelerators do have differences. The former can be assigned 
to any key combination. The later only apply to the ALT key.

[1] https://developer.gnome.org/hig/stable/keyboard-input.html.en