Re: How to localize keyEquivalent="q"?

[Paul Chany]

David Chisnall <theraven@sucs.org> writes:

> On 26 Jun 2010, at 21:27, Yavor Doganov wrote:
>
>> Paul Chany wrote:
>>> OK but GNUstep doesn't support accelerators for menus/buttons, right?
>> 
>> TTBOMK, it does not.
>> 
>>> Why not?
>> 
>> Not sure, but several reasons (or a combination) come to mind:
>> 
>> 1) Nobody bothered to implement this functionality.
>> 2) Apple does not support it (I don't actually know what Apple
>>   supports or not -- this is just a wild guess), which often leads to
>>   less motivation for 1).
>> 3) There's been little or practically no users' interest, which means
>>   less incentive for 1) as well.
>> 4) You name it.  Free software projects are what they are, and that's
>>   how it should be.

Free software is free because anybody who has skills and want to can to
implement things in an application to make the software better from
users view.

> 5) I'm pretty sure we'd be happy to accept patches from anyone who did
> want to implement this functionality. 

I would be certainly happy, I'm sure! :)

> If you're going to implement it, however, it would be nice to emulate
> the OS X functionality, where you simply start typing the name of the
> menu item you want, and it jumps to the correct one.  This has the
> nice advantage that it doesn't need any localisation support - it is
> automatically localised when the menu item text is localised. 

I just start to study GNUstep and Obj-C so I haven't skills for
this. However because I'm a teacher I think I shall never haven't enough
time to do this. Sorry! :(

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