Re: Alt-key mnemonics in menus

2011-09-05 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
On 2011-09-05 at 21:35, Allin Cottrell wrote: > Having built a minimal test program, showing a plain GTK window with > a menu, I can confirm that the GTK default is (a). And I find this > to be the case with all the gnome apps that I've tested. I infer > that apps that support (c) -- e.g., Firefox,

Re: Alt-key mnemonics in menus

2011-09-05 Thread Allin Cottrell
Just for the record, in case anyone else wonders about this, here's what I have found (history below): Suppose you have a menubar with a top-level menu _File (with underscore-mnemonic F). How do you open the File menu via the keyboard? Easy: using Alt-F. Now for the question I was asking: su

Re: Alt-key mnemonics in menus

2011-09-05 Thread Allin Cottrell
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Allin Cottrell wrote: I've noticed that in my GTK app Alt-key mnemonics work like this: pressing Alt-F, for example, opens the _File menu, but once you're in the menu pressing Alt-N does not activate _New, although pressing plain N does so. In various other GTK apps both A

Alt-key mnemonics in menus

2011-09-05 Thread Allin Cottrell
I've noticed that in my GTK app Alt-key mnemonics work like this: pressing Alt-F, for example, opens the _File menu, but once you're in the menu pressing Alt-N does not activate _New, although pressing plain N does so. In various other GTK apps both Alt-N and plain N work in this sort of cont