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Re: [platform-ui-dev] The "Team" team is on longer sponsered by the letter "T"

In an application where you have total control of all the choices, yes
every choice should have a unique mnemonic. In Eclipse that is not possible
since a plug-in does not know about all other possible plug-ins.

However, it does know about it prerequisites (and even to some degree some
set of plug-ins it will typically work with) and therefore should avoid
conflicts with mnemonic for those known choices. Here, the Cut choice is
provided by the workbench and uses the t for the mnemonic (all MS Windows
app that I know of use this and avoid conflicts with this mnemonic). The
Team menu should avoid using T in this case.

If you still disagree, please open a problem report against the Team
component. There is no need to discuss this further on this mailing list
(actually, it should never has been posted to this mailing list, but rather
a problem report should have been opened from the start).

Simon :-)



                                                                                                                         
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You can't give every choice a unique mnemonic.  For example, the preference
dialogs defines "Restore &Defaults" and "&Apply".  So which mnemonic would
I give my "Add.." button?



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Then you should talk to JDT.

The fact that Cut has an accelerator has nothing to do with whether it
should have 't' as a mnemonic. Every menu item has to have a mnemonic.

james

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