[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #56156] shortcuts not displayed in editor right-click menu

[Torsten Lilge]

Update of bug #56156 (project octave):

                  Status:               Confirmed => Invalid                
             Open/Closed:                    Open => Closed                 

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Follow-up Comment #5:

Whether shortcuts are shown in context menus or not is a global setting of the
OS or the window manager. This setting can be checked since Qt 5.10 with 


QGuiApplication::styleHints ()->showShortcutsInContextMenus ()


On my Debian/Gnome system this flag is false, which explains that I do not see
shortcuts in the context menu. QStyleHints are read only [1], thus, there is
no possibility to changed this setting from octave and, even if it was, we
should not break the general setting of the window manager. 

>From the "Human Interface Guidelines" on MacOS [2], shortcuts in context menus
are regarded redundant and are unwanted [3]: 

_"Show keyboard shortcuts in menu bar menus, not contextual menus. Contextual
menus are already shortcuts to task-specific commands; it's redundant to
display keyboard shortcuts too."_

I am closing this report as "invalid", since octave does not suppress or
disable shortcuts in context menus. The behavior follows a global preference
that has to be set in the OS or window manager.

[1] https://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qstylehints.html
[2] https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines
[3]
https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/menus/contextual-menus


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