Re: Keyboard shortcuts in Amaya menus

Shriramana Sharma said the following on 12/05/05 18:42:

>
> Irene Vatton wrote:
>
>> It could work if Amaya doesn't use shortcut sequences (like Ctrl h 
>> Ctrl p to create a preformatted). The toolkit is not able to display 
>> these kind of long shortcuts in menus, so they are displayed as part 
>> of menu entries.
>
>
> You are talking about the widget toolkit yes?
>
>> We have 3 possible solutions:
>>  - keep the current status waiting for a possible solution with the 
>> toolkit,
>>  - display the first part of the shortcut (Ctrl h) into the entry and 
>> the
>>    second part (Ctrl p) aligned as a classical shortcut.
>> What do you think?
>
>
> A fourth solution:
>
> Ctrl H P
>
> Much shorter and will certainly fit into the menu. Since there is no
> mixing like Ctrl H Alt P, such a shortening is quite possible.
>
> Besides, I should think everybody is used to this kind of writing. In
> case you want to make it explicit, use Ctrl + H + P or Ctrl+H+P. But the
> latter is again cluttered and the former too long. Ctrl H P is just fine.

Emacs menus represent it as C-h C-p, as it is a different key sequence 
than C-h p.

> Oh, and another thing - it would be better if some consistency in
> capitalization is maintained. I see some accelerators in capitals and
> some in small. Capitals are the standard everywhere (especially since
> they are what a use sees on the keyboard) and they should be used.

I'd disagree - use lower case as that's what the user will type. Is 
Ctrl-H the same as Control+Shift+h ? H is the same as Shift+h.

Scott

Received on Friday, 13 May 2005 02:39:00 UTC