10:45 p.m.
Hi,
in the German translation I have been adding a bunch of menu shortcuts,
or more accurately, menu accelerators as I believe they're called. (type
alt+letter to access the menu entry which has the corresponding
underlined letter)
I'm wondering:
- Can I break anything if I add accelerators which in the original
version don't exist?
- Is there a rule for the choice of which items get accelerators? I
couldn't infer the pattern from the status quo.
Thanks,
sven
1:35 a.m.
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Sven Schreiber wrote:
in the German translation I have been adding a bunch of menu
shortcuts, or more accurately, menu accelerators as I believe
they're called. (type alt+letter to access the menu entry which
has the corresponding underlined letter)
I'm wondering:
- Can I break anything if I add accelerators which in the original
version don't exist?
I don't think so.
- Is there a rule for the choice of which items get accelerators? I
couldn't infer the pattern from the status quo.
I'm afraid that is a bit random in the English version. You might
take a look at Cri Rigamonti's Italian version (run gretl with
LANG=it_IT), since I think Cri has been more systematic than me!
My procedure was simply to add an accelerator up to the point where
I ran out of reasonably intuitive unique keys, then stop ;-)
By the way, Sven, I haven't forgotten your suggestions on
reorganizing the gretl menus. I think this should be done at some
point, but we've been busy on various other things (notably, getting
ARIMA sorted out, which I believe is now mostly taken care of).
Allin Cottrell
9:39 a.m.
Allin Cottrell schrieb:
By the way, Sven, I haven't forgotten your suggestions on reorganizing
the gretl menus. I think this should be done at some point, but we've
been busy on various other things (notably, getting ARIMA sorted out,
which I believe is now mostly taken care of).
That's okay, I was going to remind you only after finishing the
translation, which will still take a while...
2:34 p.m.
On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 08:35:03PM -0500, Allin Cottrell wrote:
>I'm wondering:
>- Can I break anything if I add accelerators which in the original
>version don't exist?
I don't think so.
I confirm that you won't break anything.
>- Is there a rule for the choice of which items get accelerators?
I
>couldn't infer the pattern from the status quo.
I'm afraid that is a bit random in the English version. You might
take a look at Cri Rigamonti's Italian version (run gretl with
LANG=it_IT), since I think Cri has been more systematic than me!
My procedure was simply to add an accelerator up to the point where
I ran out of reasonably intuitive unique keys, then stop ;-)
For the most common menu items (Open, Save, etc...) I followed the standard
suggestions of the GNOME and KDE i18n teams:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gtp/style-guides/
http://i18n.kde.org/translation-howto/
For gretl-specific stuff I tried to extend Allin's intuitive approach; of course
when you work with long menus you may find "conflicting" items reclaiming the
same "intuitive" accelerator: you can decide to switch to less intuitive ones,
or just use the same accelerator for different items (and the user will cycle
between the items when pressing the accelerator key).
Cri
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