Re: feasibility of non-roman menu keymaps?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 04:22:40PM -0500, Daniel Yacob wrote: 
> What compels me here is that the alternative "<x><y><z> (_M)"
> I've found to be visually distracting, eats up gui real estate, and
> makes me look at the gui more frequently and for longer moments
> to check what the key sequence is.
> 
> I am willing to work on implementing this feature, but I'd like to
> know firstly if there is some major reason for not going this route
> (has it been tried before and failed?) and if the gtk maintainers
> would even be willing to accept a patch for it?

If every other toolkit and Windows uses the (_M) thing it seems like a
poor idea to be different in this area, I would think.

Havoc