[maemo-developers] Mnemonics (Access keys) usage in Fremantle

From: Cornelius Hald hald at icandy.de
Date: Wed Sep 16 18:16:40 EEST 2009
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 17:10 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> In many 3rd party apps, buttons/check boxes/menuitems use mnemonics
> (=underlined letter in a word that can be used together with the Alt key
> for the sake of accessbility).

All Gtk stock items get mnemonics by default. 

> In every official Fremantle screenshot I have seen there are no
> mnemonics though.
> 
> Is there any "should not use mnemonics" guideline?
> I could not find anything in the HIG at
> http://wiki.maemo.org/Documentation/Maemo_5_Developer_Guide/Human_Interface_Guidelines/

I thought it's discouraged (but it was only mentioned on tmo), so I
filed this bug[1] some time ago.
https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5128



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