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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

The keyboard mnemonics (underlined letters) in the eeschema and libedit 
config boxes are a bit messy. There is at least one conflict (two items 
sharing L), and many items missing mnemonics.

I could easily patch this, but I'd rather discuss: perhaps they should 
be removed? It is not usual to have mnemonics in large, complicated 
dialogs like this - they're not particularly useful there, and they are 
error-prone as the current state demonstrates. People forget to add 
them, or miss conflicts. Mnemonics are much more useful in dialogs that 
are used frequently like text edit dialogs, where a user might want, for 
example, to jump quickly to the "text size" field. With so many options, 
nobody is going to remember the mnemonics anyway (note what "mnemonic" 
means: it's a memory aid!), and it doesn't save any time when one has to 
squint at all the options to find the underlined letter.

Of course the possibility for inconsistency goes even farther: I haven't 
even checked the localizations to see how they behave.

Anybody else in favor of just removing them from these two dialogs? The 
pcbnew and modedit dialogs already do not use them, and most other GUI 
applications that I checked now also do not use them in their 
Preferences boxes.


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Chris