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Re: How to localize keyEquivalent="q"?


From: Paul Chany
Subject: Re: How to localize keyEquivalent="q"?
Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:54:56 +0200
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Yavor Doganov <yavor@gnu.org> writes:

> В Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:29:45 +0200, Paul Chany написа:
>
>> Everything is compiled in to Window.app Resources but still don't works
>> the "q" = "k" or "q" = "i" translations? Why?
>
> Because that's the right thing to do.  Localizing keybindings/shortcuts 
> would lead to a horrible mess:
> Accelerators for menus/buttons is one thing and it's absolutely 
> compulsory for them to be localizable.  But shortcuts in the application 
> should be the same no matter the language, and in environments striving 
> for consistency/user-friendliness shortcuts for common/known/widespread 
> actions should match too across different applications.
>
> This is not a misfeature of GNUstep and/or Renaissance.  Take a look at 
> GTK+/GNOME for example.  There's a good reason for this.

OK but GNUstep doesn't support accelerators for menus/buttons, right?
Why not?

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Paul Chany
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