GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 155861
Add mnemonics to Tool Options
Last modified: 2016-10-08 19:43:19 UTC
Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Click Programs->Graphics->GIMP Image Editor. 2. The GIMP window appears. 3. Click Text Options icons. Actual Results: Hotkey "S" for Size is not functioning in the Text Options dialog. Expected Results: Hotkeys should be functioning. How often does this happen? Always Additional Information: See screenshots attached.
Created attachment 32780 [details] screenshot of bug
Good spot. I've removed the 3 mnemonics: 2004-10-19 Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org> * app/tools/gimptextoptions.c (gimp_text_options_gui): removed 3 mnemonics. No other tool options label has a mnemonic. Addresses bug #155861. The reason for removing instead of fixing them is that we generally don't have mnemonics in dockable dialogs. Dockables are freely arrangable so it would be impossible to avoid conflicts. Moreover, the mnemonics conflicted with menu mnemonics (try alt-f). However is seems reasonable to make an exception for the tool options. They exist only once, so they cannot be added twice and conflict with themselves; and it would make sense to add mnemonics because they are the only dockable with a clear name->value widget structure. This can only be done after the 2.2 release because we don't want to change that many translatable strings at this point. Changing summary and severity accordingly.
As of Git master, none of tools' options appear to have mnemonics. I'm guessing that's the result of introducing the single-window mode (too many clashes with the main menu?). Since, AFAIK, we intend to make SWM the default mode eventually, should this bug be closed as WONTFIX?
Yes, having arbitrary widgets in the toplevel (docks) makes mnemonics kindof pointless, they should probably be removed from all docks (if there are any at all).
Closing as WONTFIX as suggested.