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They used to be discoverable with mnemonics (underlined letters) but those have been dead nearly thirty years…
by CalRobert 4mo ago
They used to be discoverable with mnemonics (underlined letters) but those have been dead nearly thirty years…
- p-t 4mo agothese still exist on windows though? you just hold alt
- MarsIronPI 4mo agoGTK (and QT I do believe) also support this on GNU/Linux.
- foobarbecue 4mo agoOnly works for like 20% of the menus though. I remember alt shortcuts reliably being on every single menu in early Windows (95? ME? XP?)
- CalRobert 4mo agoHah, I was thinking 3.1…
- foobarbecue 4mo agoYeah I only used it a little bit so couldn't remember if it had the "hold alt to see shortcuts" thing
- thewebguyd 4mo agoThey died when people stopped using native toolkits and started making everything an electron app. Economics be damned, if you're going to make a native app, use the OS provided toolkits.
- accrual 4mo agoI remember using TweakUI to enable "always show underline for shortcut key" because that genuinely felt like it should be a default for better usability.
- saint_yossarian 4mo agoI wouldn't say they're dead, just more hidden (e.g. GTK4 only shows them when you hold Alt). AFAIK most toolkits still support them, but app developers also have to actually define them.