Hi,

Maurits Rijk writes:

GTK 2.0 now has this nice feature of using mnemonics which I think can greatly improve the navigation inside dialogs. I have 3 questions about this:

* should we have some kind of guideline for using these, such that each plugin will use more or less the same mnemonics?

the GNOME style guide could suite our needs. I haven't looked at it in detail.

* what will be the impact on the translations when we start using these?

translations will break and need to be updated. However I don't see any particular problem here. Of course translators need to put some thoughts into the mnemonics they use in the translations and should try not to deviate too much from the original (english) mnemonics.

* can I submit a change request in Bugzilla to request for all plugins to use mnemonics for GIMP 1.4? I'm willing to help out here.

sure. I guess the core UI also needs some work in this area.

Salut, Sven

lör 2002-05-04 klockan 18.10 skrev Sven Neumann:

* what will be the impact on the translations when we start using these?

translations will break and need to be updated. However I don't see any particular problem here. Of course translators need to put some thoughts into the mnemonics they use in the translations and should try not to deviate too much from the original (english) mnemonics.

I usually consider the mnemonics to be chosen so that they are easy to remember and access to be of much higher importance than any attempt to make them not deviate too much from their English equivalents. Often, the English characters are not even part of the translated word, so it's usually not particularily useful to use a strategy of not deviating too much, especially as this strategy may cause the mnemonic to clash with much better mnemonics where it's not even possible to use the English equivalent even if you would want to do so. For these reasons, I myself have long since given up any strategy to not deviate too much, and instead try to choose the mnemonics wisely.

Christian