Re: Client menu suggestions was Re: [Gnumed-devel] Release 0.5.rc2

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 02:22:05PM -0700, Jim Busser wrote:

> How then would be represented the active letter  "m" for the menus
>
>       "current medication"
>
> and
>
>       "Manage master data"
>
> when (in the second case) it is the lower-case "m" that is underlined.

Huh ?   Maybe you mean this:

"current &medication"  and  "Manage &master data" ?

Given those are put into the same menu there would then be
two menu items with the active letter "m". A good windowing
system will allow cycling through those items by multiple
successive Alt-m keypresses.

BTW, as far as I know case doesn't matter in this context.

> It 
> also has me wondering whether lower-case letters which descend below the 
> baseline (g j p q y) pose a problem to be shown as underlined?

They do but not more than in, say, a word processor
underlining words ...

Karsten
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