From: Christian Franke <Christian.Franke@t-online.de>
To: Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>,
"cygwin-apps@cygwin.com" <cygwin-apps@cygwin.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH setup] Add tooltip for Ctrl+I/R/U accelerator keys
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2023 18:48:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6a681c15-4ad8-6e61-f676-a5d4c6509a98@t-online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a3d54569-4ab0-1c29-c681-fce44fa60e8b@dronecode.org.uk>
Jon Turney wrote:
> On 22/11/2022 16:00, Christian Franke wrote:
>> This is a first try to make these keys more obvious as requested on
>> the Cygwin ML.
>>
>> A more complex approach would be to mention only the keys which
>> actually would change the current package state.
>
> Thanks for this patch.
>
> So, I appreciate what this is trying to do, but I have great
> difficultly convincing myself that this is the right approach.
>
I'm also not sure. An alternative would possibly be some help below the
listbox, centered in the same line as "Hide obsolete packages".
> We don't need to resort to a tooltip for any other shortcut, because
> there is an established visual design language to indicate those. I
> guess we just need to find what's consistent with pre-existing ways of
> indicating this kind of behaviour in other applications.
>
Cygwin setup is somewhat uncommon as there is no default menu bar with
drop-down menus. Accelerator keys are traditionally mentioned there.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-02 17:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-22 16:00 Christian Franke
2023-02-02 16:05 ` Jon Turney
2023-02-02 17:48 ` Christian Franke [this message]
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