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Wishlist: Display key bindings of menu entries to the right on MacOS

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Message #13 received at control <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
Cc: 36178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#36178: Wishlist: Display key bindings of menu entries to the
 right on MacOS
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:17:59 -0800

tags 36178 wontfix
close 36178
thanks

Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org> writes:

> On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 02:45:48PM +0200, Stefan Kangas wrote:
>> The menu entries shows key bindings when available.  They are
>> appended to the string "FOO" as "FOO (C-x)" for example.
>>
>> In GTK on my GNU/Linux system the information in the parentheses
>> is taken out and is displayed to the right.  This mirrors the
>> behaviour of many other GTK applications.
>>
>> On MacOS, the parenthesis are not converted in such a way, and the
>> text is instead displayed as is.  This is not consistent with
>> other MacOS applications.
>>
>> It would be good if we could show the keybindings of menu entries
>> to the right also on MacOS.
>
> macOS doesn’t support more than one shortcut key per item, so
> something like C-x C-c cannot be displayed.

So I guess nothing can be done about this.  I'm therefore closing this
bug report.

Thanks.

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