[texworks] Feature request: better keyboard shortcuts

[Paul A Norman]

Yes there is a recommended list on a Microsoft site for accessibility
- if any one decides to follow up I could try and locate it.

Paul

On 14 April 2010 22:13, Joseph Wright <joseph.wright at morningstar2.co.uk> wrote:
> On 14/04/2010 10:22, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>>
>> On 14 Apr 2010, at 10:15, David J. Perry wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Alain,
>>>
>>>> But this should be done in the source of TeXworks for the English
>>>> version.
>>>> I could try to do that if required! and needed!!
>>>
>>> That would be excellent.
>>
>> Just a note to confirm that I'll be happy to add these, if you (Alain,
>> David, or anyone) would like to offer a patch. I'm not the person who should
>> try to decide on assigning Alt-accelerator keys, as I never use them, but
>> others are welcome to have them!
>
> At least on Windows, pretty much every menu entry should have a standard
> keyboard setting. This is not so much an "accelerator" as an accessibility
> issue (try using TeXworks without a mouse!). If you look at most
> applications, the menu's all have an underlined letter for each menu and
> menu entry, showing which key it is. A few are very "standardised": Alt-F,S
> = File-Save in almost everything, for example.
> --
> Joseph Wright
>