highlighted letters in menus / shortcuts

[Jean-Baptiste]

Hi there,

one contributor ask me how to handle  highlighted letters in menus.

For example : in system-config-language, there is "_Help" and "_Ok".
It 
looks like to be the keys for shortcuts.
Is there a rule to know impact of translating those words ?

thanks for your help,
-- 
Jean-Baptiste Holcroft

[Yaron Shahrabani]

You should try to make sure the highlighted letter is unique, worst case
the user will have to use alt+letter until reaching the desired option.
On Apr 4, 2016 11:27 PM, "Jean-Baptiste" <jean-baptiste(a)holcroft.fr&gt;
wrote:

>  Hi there,
>
>  one contributor ask me how to handle  highlighted letters in menus.
>
>  For example : in system-config-language, there is "_Help" and "_Ok".
> It
>  looks like to be the keys for shortcuts.
>  Is there a rule to know impact of translating those words ?
>
>  thanks for your help,
>  --
>  Jean-Baptiste Holcroft
>  --
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[Richard E. van der Luit]

Op 04-04-16 om 22:26 schreef Jean-Baptiste:
>  Hi there,
>  
>  one contributor ask me how to handle  highlighted letters in menus.
>  
>  For example : in system-config-language, there is "_Help" and "_Ok".
> It
>  looks like to be the keys for shortcuts.
>  Is there a rule to know impact of translating those words ?
>  
>  thanks for your help, 
Well, I usually start that GUI-program to see where those _Underscore
short keys appear and what short keys exist in that same menu.
Then i take non-collisional characters to make those short cuts, in the
most logical way, i.e (in Dutch):

_Volgende  (=Next)
V_orige    (=Privious),

If the same letter is used in a menu window, the short cut simply
disappears, by the way (so no harm done).
But if you do want them, as a rule just be sure there are never 2 or
more of the same characters underscored in one window(and pick the most
logical ones for your language).

grtz
Richard

[Richard E. van der Luit]

Op 05-04-16 om 11:26 schreef Richard E. van der Luit:
>  Op 04-04-16 om 22:26 schreef Jean-Baptiste:
> > Hi there,
> >
> > one contributor ask me how to handle  highlighted letters in menus.
> >
> > For example : in system-config-language, there is "_Help" and
> "_Ok". It
> > looks like to be the keys for shortcuts.
> > Is there a rule to know impact of translating those words ?
> >
> > thanks for your help,
>  
>  Well, I usually start that GUI-program to see where those _Underscore
>  short keys appear and what short keys exist in that same menu.
>  Then i take non-collisional characters to make those short cuts, in the
>  most logical way, i.e (in Dutch):
>  
>  _Volgende  (=Next)
>  V_orige    (=Privious), 

*Previous

>  
>  If the same letter is used in a menu window, the short cut simply
>  disappears, by the way (so no harm done).
>  But if you do want them, as a rule just be sure there are never 2 or
>  more of the same characters underscored in one window(and pick the most
>  logical ones for your language).
>  
>  grtz
>  Richard
>  --
>  trans mailing list
>  trans(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
>  http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/[e-mail]
>