GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 143592
Remove extraneous text from Keyboard Shortcuts dialog
Last modified: 2008-06-16 20:21:15 UTC
Description of Problem: Several GNOME Terminal dialogs contain extraneous text. This text should not be displayed in the GUI. The information should be documented in the online reference manual. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Start GNOME Terminal. 2. Choose Edit->Keyboard Shortcuts. Actual Results: "Disable all menu access keys (such as Alt+f to open File menu)" "Disable menu shortcut key (F10 by default)" Expected Results: "Disable all menu access keys" "Disable menu shortcut key" How often does this happen? Every time. Additional Information: The information in parentheses is already described in the online reference manual.
The tips inside paranthesis should remain because the phrase "menu access keys" isn't very known to most users. The tip that says that Alt+f is a menu access key makes the option understandable.
Agree with comment #1. Again, any usability expert willing to tell me I'm wrong before I mark this as WONTFIX?
You're right. :-) There are a few major problems with those checkboxes (they're negative instead of positive, they don't even hint at *why* you'd want to check them, and "F10 by default" should be changed to display what the current shortcut key actually is), but being explicit isn't one of them. The dialog isn't commonly used, so it's better to be helpful in the dialog itself than in a manual many fewer people will read.
The strings were improved on svn trunk; I think the rest is wontfix.
Agreed.