On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 13:32, Hari Prasad Nadig wrote: > The issue is wether or not to use Ctrl + Alt for the Menu shortcuts. > (We've had Ctrl + Alt + T for Goto Today and Ctrl + Alt + G for Goto > Date as of now).
The HIG has some guidelines on choosing shortcut keys: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/userinput.html#shortcuts Basically, Ctrl-[letter] should normally be the first choice, provided it's neither taken nor recommended by the HIG for something else that your application should be using it for. (And then Shift-Ctrl-letter for anything that extends or reverses the Ctrl-letter operation). If you end up with two unrelated operations that would logically use the same Ctrl-letter combination, and no other reasonable shortcuts are available, then Ctrl-Alt-letter is probably fine for the less common one. (Bearing in mind that uncommon operations shouldn't really need a shortcut at all.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
