Re: Re: Bug 2171

On Thu, 05 Mar 2015 12:01:05 -0000, Rob Kendrick
<rjek@netsurf-browser.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 05, 2015 at 12:56:53PM +0100, Glen Walker wrote:
>> Aha! Excellent, thank you!
>>
>> Do you think it would be appropriate to define another version of
>> "AppHelp" (and other menu entries) for use where the the function key
>> shortcut does not apply? Something like this:
>>
>> en.ro.AppHelp:Help... F1
>> de.ro.AppHelp:Hilfe... F1
>> fr.ro.AppHelp:Aide... F1
>> it.ro.AppHelp:Aiuto... F1
>> nl.ro.AppHelp:Hulp... F1
>>
>> en.ro.AppHelpNoFunc:Help...
>> de.ro.AppHelpNoFunc:Hilfe...
>> fr.ro.AppHelpNoFunc:Aide...
>> it.ro.AppHelpNoFunc:Aiuto...
>> nl.ro.AppHelpNoFunc:Hulp...
>>
>> Or is there a cleaner way? I'll get my thinking cap on...
>
> I suspect it's either this (although I would use NoAccel or NoShortcut),
> or an ugly heuristic to modify and truncate after ... - I think I prefer
> the former.
>
> Of course, we could have a system of user-definable shortcuts such that
> the menu entries are generated programmatically, but this is obviously a
> huge task.
>
> B.
>

Couldn't the messages in the UI messages file contain a special character
to denote the start of a keyboard shortcut? Something that wouldn't make
sense for a menu item, like a CR? I suppose that's not very friendly in
terms of the messages file itself, so maybe something else, like a forward
slash.

The ro_gui_translate() (if that is the right function - I haven't looked)
could be passed an extra parameter to either truncate the string at that
point, or remove the special character from the string.

Thoughts?