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Re: [Gitk Patch 0/6]

From
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Date
Oct 18, 2008, 12:11 UTC
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<18681.53866.855255.688290@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
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<1223532590-8706-1-git-send-email-robin.rosenberg@dewire.com>
Robin Rosenberg writes:
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> I finally got tired of pressing Alt and some letter to activate menus in Gitk. 
> For example in "any" program you can press Alt-F to have the File menu drop 
> down and then select the underscored character to select the wanted menu.
> 
> This series makes it possible. Friends of TCL may think my solution is too
> hack-ish. It doesn't fix all of the similary problem (mostly button) but 
> that is the subject of later patches as it looks like it requires other
> means.

Have a look at what I just pushed out. It adds infrastructure to let us use "&" in menu items to specify an alt+letter accelerator, but in a different way to your patches. If you'd like to redo your patch to add "&" to the menu items, that would be good.

Paul.
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Message 12 of 15 in “[Gitk Patch 0/6]”
  1. 0/6 Robin Rosenberg, Oct 9, 2008
  2. 1/6 gitk: Add procedure to create accelerated menusRobin Rosenberg, Oct 9, 2008
  3. 2/6 gitk: Change menus to use accelerated designRobin Rosenberg, Oct 9, 2008
  4. 3/6 gitk: regenerated po filesRobin Rosenberg, Oct 9, 2008
  5. 4/6 gitk: Add accelerator hintsRobin Rosenberg, Oct 9, 2008
  6. 5/6 gitk: regenerated po filesRobin Rosenberg, Oct 9, 2008
  7. 6/6 gitk: Add menu accelerators for Swedish translationRobin Rosenberg, Oct 9, 2008
  8. Paul MackerrasOct 11, 2008
  9. Robin RosenbergOct 11, 2008
  10. Paul MackerrasOct 11, 2008
  11. Robin RosenbergOct 11, 2008
  12. Paul MackerrasOct 18, 2008
  13. Add menu acceleratorsRobin Rosenberg, Oct 19, 2008
  14. Add menu acceleratorsRobin Rosenberg, Oct 19, 2008
  15. Paul MackerrasOct 20, 2008

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