On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 13:30 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > Why can't we just do whatever Firefox does? How does it handle the > German file menu? > > > Personally I have _never_ used alt+d to get to the location entry in any > > browser, looking at IE it isn't at all clear that that is what it does. > > Perhaps it works in IE as the German A_ddress text is translated to > > something else with a different accel ? > > It does the exact same thing in IE as Firefox. And lots of users do use > it.
Personally I don't agree with using Alt+D. But some good points were made on the nautilus lise about why Windows uses it: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-August/msg00214.html To summarise, Windows has the label of their location entry field as "A_ddress:" and so Alt+D is a normal accelerator. They guess that the translators ensure that their chosen accelerator doesn't conflict with any other menus. However, this is a very odd way to use Alt+ keys in a window that is not a dialog, which is why I'm against it. Considering that Firefox uses Ctrl+L the same way we do, and IE opens a dialog to do effectively the same thing, I'd prefer to maintain consistency and use Ctrl+L only. Otherwise we should technically bind Alt+S for Stop and Alt+F for Forward and ... Remember we are going for standards compliance. Either agree with the standard or change the standard. Anyway, if we decide to support Alt+D for the location entry widget, it should be named 'A_ddress:' and translated appropriately. Regards, Peter. _______________________________________________ epiphany-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/epiphany-list
