[Geany] Conflicting hotkeys in Edit menu

Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger at xxxxx
Wed Feb 25 23:30:29 UTC 2009


On Wed, 4 Feb 2009 19:40:24 +0100, Enrico Tröger
<enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:

>On Tue, 3 Feb 2009 15:59:58 -0500 (EST), Greg Smith
><gsmith at 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

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