Re: [GnomeMeeting-devel-list] Option Menu Mnemonics in Preferences Dialog

[Damien Sandras <dsandras seconix com>]

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> Attached is a patch which fixes these issues. So, assuming that you have
> a mnemonic set in the label that gets shoved in the hbox before the
> GtkOptionMenu, it will work. This also assumes that there are no other
> mnemonics with the same letter in the same page of the dialog, including
> the dialog buttons and any other widgets that aren't specific to certain
> pages.
> 

Great, I will apply that patch tonight! Thanks!

> If anyone is doing a review of the HIG and/or the UI in gnomemeeting,
> the mnemonics and strings, and their widget attachments, need to be
> seriously checked out. Just looking at the screenshot that damien
> pointed me to, to look at the page in question, frightened me with it's
> lack of proper capitalization in strings, and overuse of the same
> mnemonics in multiple widgets on the same page, as well as the use of
> arbitrary letters in the string, for the mnemonic. This patch also fixes
> the label to have a better string for the one widget in question, which
> is the only widget that sits under the grouping that it is in.
> 

I agree with this. Fabrice and Baldrick will be looking at
capitalization and strings issues. That's something I never cared about
when coding.

Notice I'm 100% sure that translations suffer the same problem...

> Since this changes a string, the translations will need to be updated as
> well.
> 
> -- dobey
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