Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Re: highlighted letters in menus / shortcuts

Op 05-04-16 om 11:26 schreef Richard E. van der Luit:
> Op 04-04-16 om 22:26 schreef Jean-Baptiste:
>> Hi there,
>>
>> one contributor ask me how to handle highlighted letters in menus.
>>
>> For example : in system-config-language, there is "_Help" and "_Ok". It
>> looks like to be the keys for shortcuts.
>> Is there a rule to know impact of translating those words ?
>>
>> thanks for your help,
>
> Well, I usually start that GUI-program to see where those _Underscore
> short keys appear and what short keys exist in that same menu.
> Then i take non-collisional characters to make those short cuts, in the
> most logical way, i.e (in Dutch):
>
> _Volgende (=Next)
> V_orige (=Privious),


*Previous

>
> If the same letter is used in a menu window, the short cut simply
> disappears, by the way (so no harm done).
> But if you do want them, as a rule just be sure there are never 2 or
> more of the same characters underscored in one window(and pick the most
> logical ones for your language).
>
> grtz
> Richard
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