Re: [platform-ui-dev] Re: Proposed accelerator change: using Ctrl+Shift+

[Nick_Edgar@xxxxxxx]

It is not recommended to use mnemonics for controls in a main window, 
other than for the menus, precisely for this reason.
You cannot predict whether there will be conflicts.  And even if we did 
allow bottom-up lookup of mnemonics, it would be confusing to the user to 
see duplicates.
See item 9 in the Accessibility Tips off our development resources page:
http://dev.eclipse.org/viewcvs/index.cgi/%7Echeckout%7E/platform-ui-home/accessibility/tips.html

Nick





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Nick wrote:

> We can't second guess what accelerators
> will be needed for products above us.

Top-level menu mnemonics in particular are a big issue, as they steal
Alt+<letter> combinations.  Not only additional plug-ins may add their own
top-level menus, but once a product gets translated (Spanish, French,
etc.), all these Alt+<letter> will now steal *different* letters...

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