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[Vishnoo <drkvi-a@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 21:11 +0100, Thorsten Wilms wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-01-12 at 13:53 -0600, David Siegel wrote:
> 
> > ...Rich Jones suggested curbing the display of all keyboard
> > shortcuts in menus.
> 
> > (https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/493762)
> 
> It does look nicer and is less distracting in all cases where you do not
> care about the shortcuts. It's a disaster if you are looking for them.
> But what is more common? ;)
> 
> However, simply never showing them would remove one way users can
> discover and be reminded of shortcuts.
> 
> >   * How would you feel if only the keyboard shortcut for the highlighted
> > menu entry (e.g. the menu entry under the cursor) were shown?
> 
> That *might* be a good compromise. Additionally, hitting any meta key
> could show them all (not just those with the meta key in question).
> 
> But then you would either need to have all the extra space in the menu,
> or extend it once you want to show shortcuts (make menu wider or draw
> additional box).
> 
> To be mentioned just for completeness: fade in after a delay.
> 
> 
> Another possibility would be to draw the shortcuts in another color with
> less contrast.
> 

The less contrast was already suggested and sort of declined in gtk+ 
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=604315


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Cheers,
Vish