Re: [Usability]mnemonics on notebook tabs

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Jon K Hellan <hellan acm org> writes:
> Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org> writes:
> 
> > The HIG says not to:
> > 
> > http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig/controls-notebooks.html
> > 
> > To be honest I am not sure why, but it seems better to either follow
> > the HIG on this or change it, than to be inconsistent.
> 
> Can anybody explain why the HIG says this?
> 
> If not, we're stuck to arguing intuitions. Mine says that tabs should
> have mnemonics. So there!
> 

Well, there is a canonical HIG. ;-)

If there are no plans to change this in the HIG I plan to remove the
mnemonics. We can't be inconsistent just because we don't have 100%
agreement.

Havoc