[Aptitude-devel] Bug#255089: aptitude: possible solution?

[Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo]

Control: severity -1 wishlist
Control: tags -1 + wontfix
Control: retitle -1 aptitude: Menu accelerators conflict with vi-style keybindings (h/j/k/l for navigation)


2008-02-29 17:01 Daniel Burrows:
>On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 04:39:51PM +0100, Mathias Behrle <mathias.behrle at gmx.de> was heard to say:
>> Package: aptitude
>> Version: 0.4.10-1+b1
>> Followup-For: Bug #255089
>>
>> I can confirm, that capital letters are working. But it is indeed confusing for
>> german users to use i.e. 'l'.
>>
>> What about the two proposals:
>> 1) Either make vi-style key bindings configurable
>
>  They are: just reconfigure "Left", "Right", "Up", and "Down" to not
>include hjkl.
>
>> 2) or display menu accelerators in capital letters
>
>  That might be a good idea, although I'm not sure users will realize
>that it means they have to type a capital letter.

The highlighted characters in Help menu for Help and License are in
cappital letters now, the keybindings are configurable as Daniel Burrows
explained, and the responsibility for keybindings not clashing in other
languages is for the translators -- we cannot control this in general or
change them on our own.

So setting to wishlist and wontfix, because I don't think that we can
improve the situation.


Cheers.
-- 
Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo <manuel.montezelo at gmail.com>