Subject: bug#50067: Context menus

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2021 17:50:15 +0200

Juri Linkov <[email-masked]> writes:

> Other programs don't show the keys in context menus.
> The Human Interface Guidelines say:
>
>   Show keyboard shortcuts in menu bar menus, not contextual menus.
>   Contextual menus are already shortcuts to task-specific commands;
>   it's redundant to display keyboard shortcuts too.

I'm not sure I agree with those guidelines -- displaying the key
bindings increases the discoverability of those key bindings.  (Not
using the mouse is more productive in the long term for most people.)

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