Re: Understanding accelerators.

[Gergely Polonkai <gergely polonkai eu>]

This is becoming offtopic, but… this is strange, last time I saw a
discussion about them, they were considered "out of date" or something and
many was upset that they are gone (even if only at theme level). Sorry
then, it's my mistake.
On 7 Oct 2014 16:31, "Michael Cronenworth" <mike cchtml com> wrote:

> 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