Hi, On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 6:50 PM, Caolán McNamara <[email protected]> wrote: > Quite a while ago we added code to add mnemonic's to "ok"/"cancel" > buttons if the translation/english didn't have them > http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=58f16ff09672f3e37156d0fc5e79e310b2c49c08 > but... > // Windows (apparently) has some magic auto-accelerator evil around > // ok / cancel so add this only for Unix > > do you remember what the evilness was ? > > I ask because the catch is that adding accelerators to e.g. CJK/Indic > strings gives something that can't be pressed on a keyboard (gaze in awe > at the MnemonicGenerator::CreateMnemonic code for the dance when adding > auto-mnemonics to avoid that problem). And the usual thing is e.g. > translators append ascii " (~O)" to the end of the CJK string for OK. > > The obvious solution would seem to just change our English "OK" "Cancel" > button source strings to a simple "~OK"/"~Cancel" which lets us remove > the problematic code and shift the selection of a suitable mnemonic back > to the translations. >
I don't understand why we need mnemonics for OK/Cancel in the first place, because <ENTER> is the shortcut for OK, and <ESC> is the shortcut for Cancel always. Best regards, Andras _______________________________________________ LibreOffice mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice
