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

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From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 36178 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#36178: Wishlist: Display key bindings of menu entries to the right on MacOS
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2019 20:36:24 +0100

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.
-- 
Alan Third

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