Re: glade patch, minor mnemonics, accessibility tweaks

From: J.M. Maurer <j.m.maurer_at_student.utwente.nl>
Date: Mon Mar 21 2005 - 15:30:18 CET

What am I missing here? We've been adding mnemonics for 3 years now
using .po (and .strings) files

Marc

Op ma, 21-03-2005 te 11:51 +0100, schreef Robert Staudinger:
> I thought about mnemonics some time ago.
> Maybe it would work if we had e.g.
>
> localizeLabel(widget, text, focus_widget = NULL);
>
> If a focus_widget is passed underscores are parsed automatically from
> the text and mnemonics are added to focus focus_widget. So we could
> have mnemonics in translated labels also (need to educate translators
> of course).
> Just a braindump tough, no time to implement now :/
>
> What do you think?
> - Rob
>
> On Sun, 20 Mar 2005 23:11:59 +0000 (GMT), Alan Horkan
> <horkana@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
> >
> > After a completely fruiteless attempt to figure out how to set mnenmonics
> > in glade so that they would properly associate with text entries (and
> > similarly disconnected widgets) I decided to give up. Instead I'm sending
> > a patch which adds mnemonics for various checkboxes and radiolists (like
> > in the Replace dialog, amongst others). I've also set a bunch of
> > accessibility labels for the Metadata dialog (i was hoping that might help
> > with the mnemonics but apparently not).
> >
> > If anyone can explain to me how to properly use the ugly piece of crap
> > known as Glade I'd appreciate it. I spent ages trying to find answer but
> > unfortunately it was a complete waste of time.
> >
> > Well maybe not a complete waste of time if you accept the patch.
> >
> > Sincerely
> >
> > Alan Horkan
> >
> > Inkscape http://inkscape.org
> > Abiword http://www.abisource.com
> > Dia http://gnome.org/projects/dia/
> > Open Clip Art http://OpenClipArt.org
> >
> > Alan's Diary http://advogato.org/person/AlanHorkan/
> >
> >
>
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