Re: gEDA-user: Translations for gEDA 1.6.1....

[Florian Teply <usenet@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 07 February 2010 12:32:54 Peter Clifton wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-02-07 at 09:35 +0100, Florian Teply wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 February 2010 00:42:29 Peter Clifton wrote:
> > > Hi guys,
> > >
> > > In preparation for the gEDA 1.6.1, I've been trying to sort out our
> > > translations. I've imported all translations from Launchpad, and have
> > > been reviewing places where untranslated strings were visible in
> > > gschem.
> > >
> > > Unfortunately, we've got a lot of broken menu translations - due to
> > > incorrect strings in rcstrings.c. (Mostly my fault probably!)
> > >
> > > Mostly this was due to adding "_Accelerators" to the menu text, but not
> > > updating rcstrings.c
> >
> > Just to get Things straight: that _Accelerator stuff is the Keyboard
> > entry mode for menus, right? So just like <Alt>+<H>, <U> for Hierarchy ->
> > Up?
> 
> Actually, no - I was referring to the underlined letters on a menu which
> let you access the menu-item by letter when it is open. For example,
> most application have "_File" "_Edit" etc... so you can do Alt+F+...

Looks like that's what i meant, not noticing that there's no acceleration in 
top-level menus.
> 
> Actually, gschem doesn't accelerate any of its top-level menus. I can't
> recall why we never did this - but it might also be worth doing for
> 1.6.1. (Assuming we call the lack of accelerators a "bug").
> 
> 
> We are kind-of duplicating functionality with our existing hot-keys, but
> it's not uncommon for applications to have both menu accelerators, and
> keyboard short-cuts (which are usually modifier key based).
> 
Right, that would be the case.
I just wonder: if one changed the acceleration letters between translation, 
say from Ne_w to Ne_u (going from english to german), would it still work? Or 
has the accelerated letter to stay the same?

Regards,
Florian


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