Hi,
Tim Morley wrote:
On 12 Nov 2006, at 05:15, Pavel JanÃk wrote:
When you are in the menu itself, it should be the key T - menu shortcut.
When you are in the document, you key use Ctrl+F - keyboard shortcut.
You have to distinguish between them. Imagine keyboard shortcuts changing
with the language of the office. It would be unusable...
Not sure I agree that it would be 'unusable'. This is what happens in,
e.g. Microsoft Office, where ctrl+B for 'bold' becomes ctrl+G for 'gras'
in French, to quote just one everyday example. Also, at least for me,
even if ctrl+Z still means "undo" in French applications, the 'Z' key is
in a different place, and I can't count the number of times I've hit
ctrl+W instead.
Thus: keyboard shortcuts certainly can and do change between different
localisations of the same application. And different international
keyboard layouts mean that even shortcuts that don't change (in theory)
actually do change for the user who automatically hits the keys without
looking at them. (And, I would hypothesise that people who type without
looking at their fingers are the ones who are most likely to use
keyboard shortcuts rather than the mouse, and thus be most affected by
this issue).
From that, I'd conclude that the issue of keyboard shortcuts is far
from solved. The answer is not as obvious as you suppose. Certainly
there are good arguments to keep common keyboard shortcuts across all
languages (ctrl+F = find, ctrl+O = open, etc.) But there are also good
arguments for doing otherwise, or at least allowing different NL teams
to be able to decide.
keyboard shortcuts *are* dependent on the locale. See the specification
document at http://specs.openoffice.org/g11n -
http://specs.openoffice.org/g11n/menus/LocalizedShortcuts.sxw
So, Clythie, please submit an issue that you need Vietnamese keyboard
shortcuts.
Uwe
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