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Windows doesn't assign accelerators to all menu items, a programmer who writes the program does. If you don't take care of this, explicitly, there'll be no acc
by eps 7y ago
Windows doesn't assign accelerators to all menu items, a programmer who writes the program does.
If you don't take care of this, explicitly, there'll be no accelerators. There's plenty of programs that are like that.
- newscracker 7y agoLate reply. I know that developers assign the specific key for each option on Windows, but the fact is that if you take a bunch of commonly used Windows programs and compare them with a bunch of commonly used Mac programs, you'd find the Windows ones a lot easier to use with a keyboard. I have been using both Windows and macOS (and its earlier versions) everyday for a long time, and I see the keyboard accessibility as a comparative deficiency on macOS (though I like how easy it is to assign custom shortcuts from System Preferences).
- innocenat 7y agoI remember back then accelerators setting were highlighted in all programming books I have read.
- coribuci 7y ago> I remember back then accelerators setting were highlighted in all programming books I have read. ... back then. Now this is not cool anymore.
- int_19h 7y agoOne of the long-standing problems with Windows is that, despite the existence of fairly detailed UX guidelines for the platform, they are routinely ignored by developers targeting it. Worse yet, many aren't even aware that those guidelines exist.