Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Hotkeys shmotkeys

2013.05.29 18:09, Andras Timar rašė:
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:42 PM, Rimas Kudelis <rq@akl.lt> wrote:
> > 2013-05-29 13:48, F Wolff rašė:
> >
> > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:17 PM, Andras Timar <timar74@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Mihovil Stanic
> > > > <mihovil.stanic@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > I feel your pain. :)
> > > > > I'm coming from Mozilla L10n in which you have access keys as a separate
> > > > > strings to LO in which there is 3 different ways to mark access keys.
> > > > > I'm
> > > > > not against marking access keys inside strings, but PLEASE decide how
> > > > > you
> > > > > want to do it.
> > > >
> > > > It is not possible, different technologies use different hotkey markers.
> > > > ~ is for old VCL
> > > > _ is for new .ui
> > > > & is for native Windows widgets
> > >
> > > I've seen mentions of the move to GtkBuilder, and it seems to hold
> > > lots of advantages. Apart from the burden for translators as Michael
> > > mentions, I just realised that this change will impact the quality
> > > checks in Pootle and similar tools that still assume that '~' is the
> > > only marker. From a quick look, 13 of the quality checks in the
> > > Translate Toolkit remove the marker as part of the test. Although this
> > > might not make a difference in all affected strings, this is still
> > > unfortunate, since it might introduce lots of false complaints from
> > > the quality checks.
> > >
> > > Is there a way to distinguish the accelerator from the #: comments, or
> > > filename, or something like that?
> >
> >
> > Assuming that a marker is consistent within each file, I think it would make
> > most sense to use the X-Accelerator-Marker header for that. The question is
> > whether or not that assumption is correct... Andras?
> It is correct. I was thinking about even more simplification. Can
> Pootle accept comma separated values in X-Accelerator-Marker field?
> Like: "X-Accelerator-Marker: ~,_,&\n" Friedel? If not, we need to
> tweak l10ntools.

IMO, listing all three when only one is the actual marker would result
in more confusion than benefit. For example, the & character seems quite
common in English to me. Falsely marking it as an accelerator marker
would result in bad indexes, I guess...

Rimas


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