Am Freitag, 6. Juli 2018 16:44:30 UTC+2 schrieb Onno Ekker:
> On Fri, Jul 6, 2018 at 2:12 PM, Thomas D. 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.
Well, that depends. You are right that there is no problem about duplicate access keys within a submenu. However... (see below)
> 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.
Indeed. And the same applies to main menu access keys, and to any access keys to focus or trigger elements in the primary (non-menu) UI: They must be unique. Even if it would work to share the same access key between two non-menu UI elements, it would defeat the purpose as it would be very hard to figure out where focus has jumped to. Please read bug http://bugzil.la/1469835 where clearly duplicate access keys are breaking the main menu, except for the workaround of pressing and releasing Alt first to focus the main menu, which seems non-standard according to official Microsoft documentation cited in the bug.
> 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).
Generally right, but not applicable to our issue here.
Attachment pane access key MUST be unique among the locale's access keys, so there is no reason why it couldn't also act as a shortcut key.
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