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Bug 757546 - Hotkey editor: Dynamically remove the underscore from the menu entry name
Hotkey editor: Dynamically remove the underscore from the menu entry name
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: Keybindings
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on: 774710
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2015-11-03 21:40 UTC by Egmont Koblinger
Modified: 2021-06-10 21:02 UTC
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Description Egmont Koblinger 2015-11-03 21:40:26 UTC 
terminal-window.c defines the actual menu entries with mnemonic underscores, e.g. N_("C_lose Terminal").

terminal-accels.c defines (almost) the same ones for the shortcut key editor window, but without the underscores: N_("Close Terminal").

This means translators have to work twice, and is prone to not being consistent (e.g. a synonym word is chosen).

We should send only the mnemonic-aware strings to gettext, and dynamically strip the underscore from the translations (if the Gtk+ widget that we use for editing the shortcuts cannot do it automatically).
Comment 1 Christian Persch 2017-10-22 10:01:38 UTC 
Turns out this is not as easy as removing an underscore.

For CJK locales the convention is to translate "_Foo" as "[FOO] (_F)", so we'd also need to remove the "(_.)" and the space in front of it.

Also, some menu items have '…' appended, whereas in the accel editor they wouldn't have. Should we strip that too?
Comment 2 Egmont Koblinger 2017-10-22 10:09:29 UTC 
Fair enough. I'm fine with wontfix.
Comment 3 GNOME Infrastructure Team 2021-06-10 21:02:03 UTC 
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