Re: Lack of underlined accelerators in stock buttons

[rms39 columbia edu (Russell Steinthal)]

On Sat, 03 Feb 2001 13:58:24 CST, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:

>When you create a message box or dialog box with stock
>yes/no/ok/cancel/whatever buttons, they do not have underlined
>accelerators.  So you cannot simply press "Y" to confirm a question
>dialog, for example.
>
>We need a way for gnome_dialog_append_button() and friends to ask the
>gnome-stock framework for which accelerator to use for a particular
>button name.  And then gnome-stock needs to create an underlined label
>and all that.
>
>Thoughts?

Aren't <enter> and <escape> set as the accelerators for Yes/No, OK/
Cancel?  Or are those a different type of shortcut?

(Admittedly, that still only applies to binary choice dialogs...)

-Russell

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