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Summary: | highlighted shortcut keys for menus | ||
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Product: | ide | Reporter: | brdohman <brdohman> |
Component: | Code | Assignee: | issues@ide <issues> |
Status: | NEW --- | ||
Severity: | blocker | CC: | mpetras |
Priority: | P3 | Keywords: | A11Y, UI |
Version: | 4.x | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | All | ||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Exception Reporter: | |
Attachments: | example of what is being asked for feature |
Description
brdohman
2007-02-15 20:49:53 UTC
Created attachment 38579 [details]
example of what is being asked for feature
Thank you for filing this enhancement request. I does not belong to the Utilities module, reassigned to the general "IDE" category - it should be reassigned to the proper category soon. Do I understand it correctly that this issue is about missing mnemonics in the pop-up menus? Well, they are there, but it is true, that there is only a few items with mnemonics in most of the pop-up menus. For example if you invoke a pop-up menu on the project root node in the Projects view, there is exactly one (yes, one) item with a mnemonics ("&Find") and the keyboard shortcuts are not present in the menu either (again, there are some, but...). I have already experienced difficulties using a pop-up menus myself. I have a laptop and I tend to use a keyboard for most of the manipulations with the NB IDE. I can't just remember every single keyboard shortcut, but sometimes it is logical that some action must be in the context menu of some NB IDE control, so I open the context menu (using a context menu key) so that I can see the options... Then I have to scroll down using arrow keys in order to select some option. A mnemonics would be much more convenient. I think appropriate mnemonics should be added to the pop-up menus (I know it is hardly possible to add mnemonics to every pop-up menu item, but there should be much more mnemonics present in the pop-up menus). I also think that the current state is a minor A11Y bug (P4, P5), but I will leave it as an enhancement. As I understand the part with the mnemonic is the duplicate of issue #83952. Could you please confirm that (and also comment the former post of Petr Dvorak)? Thanks. As noted in bug: 83952, part of the problem with enabling mnemonics is translation issues. If the mnemonic is set for english, then if the ide is translated into another language that mnemonic may not be valid. There is also the issue of duplicate mnemonics within a popup menu. Between the translation and duplication issues, this tends to be a less feasible request. However, mnemonics in menus are definitely helpful most fo the time. |