Mnemonics are discouraged by the HIG, and AFAIK they are not displayed by recent GTK versions.
From the user's perspective, I think there is no difference. However, if you are using GApplication/GtkApplication, it is easier to register accels, and you can even make them easily customizable for the users. I'm yet to find a good example on the Interwebs, but if you take a look at GNOME 3.14 apps, you will find some for sure. Best, Gergely On 7 Oct 2014 16:12, "Michael Cronenworth" <m...@cchtml.com> wrote: > On 10/07/2014 04:45 AM, Oscar Lazzarino wrote: > >> I'm trying to understand the difference between accelerators and the >> “key-press-event” signal. >> >> Let's say I have a window with just one button "quit". I'd like to handle >> the >> <controlo>q key event to quit the application. >> >> I now I can connect to the top window key-press-event, but - just to >> understand >> how things work - is there any way to do the same with accelerators? Or >> are >> accelerators exclusively intended to be used with menus? >> >> I'm totally lost in the documentation bouncing between actions, >> accelerators, >> accerator groups, action groups, ui managers, etc, and I can't find a >> SIMPLE >> example. >> >> Any help would be greatly appreciated. >> > > There are menu accelerators and there are mnemonic accelerators. What you > need to use for a "quit" button is a mnemonic accelerator. You do not > attach to any key-press signal. Attach to the button clicked signal. GTK > provides the functionality to capture the keyboard press and route it to > the button click. > > You're complicating this a little. It's not that complicated. :) > _______________________________________________ > gtk-app-devel-list mailing list > gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list > _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
