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these still exist on windows though? you just hold alt
by p-t 3mo ago
these still exist on windows though? you just hold alt
- MarsIronPI 3mo agoGTK (and QT I do believe) also support this on GNU/Linux.
- foobarbecue 3mo 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 3mo agoHah, I was thinking 3.1…
- foobarbecue 3mo agoYeah I only used it a little bit so couldn't remember if it had the "hold alt to see shortcuts" thing
- thewebguyd 3mo 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 3mo 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.