Re: [Usability] Re: [Gphpedit-devel] Pre 0.4.0 release almost ready
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From: Gregory M. <me...@ph...> - 2003-06-21 05:48:45
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On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 09:41:29PM +0200, Christian Neumair wrote: > Am Fre, 2003-06-20 um 19.11 schrieb Gregory Merchan: <snip> > > How about localizing this as a string is? That seems the simplest solution > > to such problems. If that's not viable, you might try to detect the > > keyboard layout. > > Nope, that's definitly not acceptable. > > Key inconsistencies across languages are acceptable when it comes to > mnemonics - but accelerators ought to be used WITHOUT having a look at > any strings / menus / listings, so they HAVE to be consistent. Here is a rationale from Apple for using the same accels in every locale: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/ov/ov_20.html#Keyboard However, Microsoft takes a different tack on this: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch15d.asp > Sven made a sane proposal (using ctrl+><) which is much prefereable in > comparison with yours'. > What do you think of it? `<' and `>' require Shift on US keyboards. - Greg |