One little UI quirk I just noticed you may want to fix: on the Edit menu, both "Paste" and "Preferences" have the "P" as their selection key, which means typing Alt-E P just switches between the two without selecting either (if there's stuff to paste). This showed up in Gnome terminal recently too (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/290777 ).
All the apps I just checked make "P" execute "Paste", but the key for "Preferences" isn't so standardized. Just among Gnome apps, gedit uses "E" while Rhythmbox uses "N". Mozila Firefox/Thunderbird both use "N" as well.
-- * Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com http://www.gregsmith.com Baltimore, MD
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:59:58 -0500 (EST), Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com wrote:
One little UI quirk I just noticed you may want to fix: on the Edit menu, both "Paste" and "Preferences" have the "P" as their selection key, which means typing Alt-E P just switches between the two without selecting either (if there's stuff to paste). This showed up in Gnome
Good catch! The problem so far is, both labels and therefore both mnemonics (the underlined hotkeys) are set by GTK. And we can't change them now because we are already in string freeze for the upcoming 0.16 release. But I'll take a note to fix this after the release. Thanks!
All the apps I just checked make "P" execute "Paste", but the key for "Preferences" isn't so standardized. Just among Gnome apps, gedit uses "E" while Rhythmbox uses "N". Mozila Firefox/Thunderbird both use "N" as well.
I guess we will use 's' for Preferences, as the other characters are already in use.
Regards, Enrico
On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 19:40:24 +0100, Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:59:58 -0500 (EST), Greg Smith gsmith@gregsmith.com wrote:
One little UI quirk I just noticed you may want to fix: on the Edit menu, both "Paste" and "Preferences" have the "P" as their selection key, which means typing Alt-E P just switches between the two without selecting either (if there's stuff to paste). This showed up in Gnome
Good catch! The problem so far is, both labels and therefore both mnemonics (the underlined hotkeys) are set by GTK. And we can't change them now because we are already in string freeze for the upcoming 0.16 release. But I'll take a note to fix this after the release. Thanks!
All the apps I just checked make "P" execute "Paste", but the key for "Preferences" isn't so standardized. Just among Gnome apps, gedit uses "E" while Rhythmbox uses "N". Mozila Firefox/Thunderbird both use "N" as well.
I guess we will use 's' for Preferences, as the other characters are already in use.
Finally done in SVN.
Regards, Enrico