[GRASS-translations] keyboard mnemonic

[Markus Neteler]

Hi Vincent,

On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Vincent Bain <bain at toraval.fr> wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I am kind of stuck by some messages translations. The problem is when
> the message contains a keyboard accelerator (&) and no translation
> matches the sensitive key.
> For example with this message :
> &Load
> the nearly-unique french translation would be :
> &Charger
>
> Then 'L' shortcut turns into 'C' shortcut... is it allowed or should we
> keep the original hotkey ?

Interesting point!

> I myself imagine you can allocate a set of
> new shortcuts from the moment you make sure there are no duplicates at
> the same menu level. Am I right ?

I would say so. How to Openoffice and friends solve it?
To keep the shortcuts across languages IMHO fails and
does not make much sense to me.

Markus