[Geany-devel] [Patch] - Fix keyboard accelerator on Resave Missing File dialog.

Lex Trotman elextr at xxxxx
Mon Mar 1 21:55:07 UTC 2010


On 2 March 2010 05:25, Can Koy <cankoy at ymail.com> wrote:

> This patch fixes keyboard accelerator on Resave Missing File dialog.
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I have a couple of problems with this patch, sorry if they applied to some
of your previous ones but I didn't have time to look at them before.

1. Terminology only, this is changing the mnemonic, not the keyboard
accelerator, although the GTK docs are not totally consistent about it :-)

A mnemonic is the character you type (usually with Alt) to activate a
visible menu or dialog item and must be unique only within a single menu or
dialog, a keyboard accelerator is a keycode (like ctrl-shift-w) that
activates functionality directly, visible or not and must be globally unique
within Geany.

2. The standard mnemonic for close is always 'c' which is adhered to in most
applications and other Geany dialogs, but this patch is changing this one
from the standard, this is not good user interface practice, if 'c' clashes
then the other should be changed, its 'closes' mnemonic

3. by changing it from the stock item there is no icon associated with the
button, again non-standard and won't match the other buttons

Cheers
Lex

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