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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: kdebase/kdm/kfrontend
From:       Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-02-20 15:57:39
Message-ID: 20050220155739.GA15821 () ugly ! local
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On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 04:26:10PM +0100, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Am Sonntag 20 Februar 2005 14:34 schrieb Oswald Buddenhagen:
> > -                inserten( i18n("Sw&itch User"), ALT+Key_I, dpyMenu );
> > +                int id = inserten( i18n("Sw&itch User"), ALT+Key_I,
> > dpyMenu );
> 
> BTW: why not use Ctrl here? The relation between Alt+I and the text
> vanishes when you translate the string and so it becomes a shortcut
> instead of an accelerator and as such should use Ctrl.
> 
yeah, indeed, i thought about this once or twice, but forgot it again.
it's that way for historical reasons - the shortcuts were translated
before, but that was sort of a totally silly.
on the bright side, alt-something is usually easier to reach with one
hand than ctrl-something. :)

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