Re: New attachment pane functionality in Thunderbird 60, currently (still) in beta, keys incorrectly translated

On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 2:12 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Access keys are in short supply - German has a number of broken access
> keys (see http://bugzil.la/1469835) shared between more than one element
> on same level, which is illegal.
>

Double access keys aren't illegal, only inconvenient. The normal way, when
an access key is unique to a menu, you will directly choose the menuitem by
pressing the access key. If the access key isn't unique, pressing the
access key only selects the first menuitem and pressing the access key
again switches to the next menuitem with that access key and when there are
no more menuitems it switches back to the first. In order to choose the
menuitem, you have to press Enter. This behavior is demonstrated in
Thunderbird 60 for the Tools menu, where both Add-on Options and Options
have access key O. So if possible, double access keys should be avoided,
but they are not illegal.

Command keys or shortcut keys have to be unique though. When you press a
command key combination, it immediately executes the command. There is no
way to first select one of the commands and then execute it. So if a
command key is used twice in a screen, it doesn't work. That's one of the
reasons that command keys shouldn't be localized (that is, if the key is
available on the keyboard for that locale).
Onno