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[PATCH] Make toolbar show keyboard equivalents in its tooltips

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Message #22 received at 36156-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 36156-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#36156: [PATCH] Make toolbar show keyboard equivalents in its
 tooltips
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2019 12:13:29 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2019 23:28:50 +0200
> Cc: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>, 36156 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> > This is going to start a bikeshedding, but I'm not sure I like the
> > [FOO] format.  It's different from what we use in menus, for example.
> 
> FWIW, I tried both with brackets and parentheses and concluded
> that the former is more readable, especially in cases where we
> also use parentheses in the tooltip string.
> 
> Also, I'm not sure how important consistency with menus are here,
> since the parentheses are not shown on my GTK Emacs -- the key
> binding is displayed to the right.  On macOS, the key binding is
> indeed shown in parentheses (but it would be better, IMO, if it
> was also here displayed to the right with no parentheses).  Not
> sure what happens in other toolkits.
> 
> That said, I'm fine either way.  I have attached a patch which
> uses parentheses instead of brackets.  Please feel free too
> install whichever version you prefer more.
> 
> And do it quick before anyone has time to start bikeshedding... ;)

Thanks, pushed.

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