GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 73431
Accelerators for buttons not working as expected in GNOME dialogs
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
When I pop up the about box in Nautilus, I expect to be able to hit "C" to get the credits and "O" to close the dialog (as the buttons are labelled _Credits and _OK and I am not in a text field). Instead, only Alt-C and Alt-O work.
Actually, this seems to happen for all the GNOME dialogs. So e.g. if I get a Yes/No question, I have to answer with Alt-Y or Alt-N instead of just Y or N. Annoying. (Changing the Summary to make the issue clearer.)
Is this a GTK bug?
Perhaps a missing feature;there was some discussion of this, but I don't think it was ever scoped out exactly how it should work; probably the only halfway reasonable thing would be to make the programmers specify if the dialog should allow unmodified accelerators. (There is gtk_window_set_mnemonic_modifier(), but it doesn't seem useful, since it's all or nothing... Alt doesn't keep on working if you pass 0 for the modifier.)
Reassigning this to gtk+ as it clearly is a gtk+ issue
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53709 ***