Re: [Usability] Re: [Gphpedit-devel] Pre 0.4.0 release almost ready

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:41:29PM +0200, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Am Fre, 2003-06-20 um 19.11 schrieb Gregory Merchan:
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> > How about localizing this as a string is?  That seems the simplest solution
> > to such problems.  If that's not viable, you might try to detect the
> > keyboard layout.
>
> Nope, that's definitly not acceptable.
>
> Key inconsistencies across languages are acceptable when it comes to
> mnemonics - but accelerators ought to be used WITHOUT having a look at
> any strings / menus / listings, so they HAVE to be consistent.

Here is a rationale from Apple for using the same accels in every locale:

  http://developer.apple.com/technotes/ov/ov_20.html#Keyboard

However, Microsoft takes a different tack on this:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch15d.asp


> Sven made a sane proposal (using ctrl+><) which is much prefereable in
> comparison with yours'.
> What do you think of it?

 `<' and `>' require Shift on US keyboards.


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Greg