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List:       kde-i18n-doc
Subject:    How to deal with acceleratorclashes
From:       Rinse de Vries <Rinse () daxis ! nl>
Date:       2001-08-27 21:22:51
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Hi,
the Dutch team is currently working on fixing acceleratorclashes, using DR 
Klash.

Fixing clashes turns out to be very painfull.
For example, while fixing kmail, I found out that some string containing 
accelerators are used on more then one place in the gui. This means that 
fixing a clash in one dialog, creates new clashes in other dialogs and 
menu's. 
the setting dialog of kmail contains a lot of accelerators. 
the tab "identity" contains 20 accelerators, which makes it impossible to 
assign unique accelerators to every option. the Dutch language rarely uses 
more then 18 different characters.

I also checked the English versions of several applications, and noticed that 
most programs are loaded with accelerator clashes.

My question:
how does KDE deal with accelerators?
Since almost every applications has lots of clashes, I don't' think they are 
of any use at this moment..
How do other translation teams deal with accelerator clashes?

Can't we get a mechanism that creates accelerators automaticly, thus 
avoiding human errors?

Kind regards,
Rinse

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