Re: [libreoffice-l10n] Basic tool to detect duplicate use of accelerator keys in menus

Hi Niklas

Will this tool work on fresh builds without keyid?

Regards

2015-09-24 12:39 GMT+01:00 Niklas Johansson <sleeping.pillow@gmail.com>:

> Hi Michael
>
> Well this is not as big a problem as you make it. Basically you open the
> document I sent a link to earlier. The UI language of LibreOffice should be
> set to the language that you want to check. Generate the report, which will
> list all menus and sub-menus and highlight the problematic menu entries.
> Save the file and change the UI language to KeyID and reopen the report
> there. Now you can easily find the exact string in Pootle.
>
> Let me know if you do not know what KeyID is and how to use it.
>
> /Niklas
>
> 2015-09-24 11:29 GMT+02:00 Michael Bauer <fios@akerbeltz.org>:
>
> > Hi Niklas,
> >
> > This has often been debated but I don't think anything ever happened. The
> > main issue with any such tool is that unless it links to the unique UI
> > string, it's not much help because most of the time there are like 50
> > incidences of &Edit and to make matters worse, we have _Edit and &Edit
> type
> > hotkeys and worse still, if I search for Edit and the string is E&dit, it
> > won't get found.
> >
> > The summary of previous discussions is that if a locale does not assign
> > hotkeys, the system does it automatically - which no one tells you when
> you
> > start out, and while I'd prefer that for our locale, I don't have the
> > resources to strip all existing hotkeys. Other than that, there are the
> > usual problems of not knowing the scope (i.e. what other UI strings are
> > sharing the menu with said string) and restricted letter sets (Gaelic has
> > 18 letters, fewer if you ignore letters with descenders...)
> >
> > Ideally I think we'd need a tool which during localization flags
> > "Duplicated hotkey in menu scope" + list of strings in scope. And/or a
> tool
> > that allows locales which do not want to assign hotkeys manually to strip
> > them all from the existing files so the system can automatically deal
> with
> > the issue.
> >
> > Michael
> >
> > Sgrìobh Niklas Johansson na leanas 24/09/2015 aig 10:01:
> >
> > After thinking a bit about it I instead decided to write a small tool in
> > > basic that uses the accessibility interfaces to traverse the menus and
> > > print a report in Writer. This makes it possible to run from Linux,
> > > Windows
> > > and even on Mac. You'll find some more information on how to use the
> tool
> > > in the document below (also containing the relevant macros).
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