Bug 98784 - Spanish accelerators in Insert menu repeated
Summary: Spanish accelerators in Insert menu repeated
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Localization (show other bugs)
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5.1.0.3 release
Hardware: All All
: medium minor
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Reported: 2016-03-20 14:10 UTC by Roy Reese
Modified: 2017-05-22 19:12 UTC (History)
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Description Roy Reese 2016-03-20 14:10:17 UTC
With the rearranged and expanded menus in Writer 5.1 one cannot navigate to "Document" from the Insert drop down menu. "N" is now used for inserting a) commentaries, b) notes c) footnotes, d) end notes, and e) documents. As a result of the Alt+N for the type of notes in the "notes submenu," "Document" cannot be reached.

To replicate:

Alt+I > N > N > N > N

Alt+I --> Insert drop-down menu
N --> Insert comment
N --> insert Note
N --> (submenu) Insert footnote
N --> Insert end note

Additional "Ns" or "Alt+Ns" simply alternates between insert footnote and insert end note preventing movement down to allow the insertion of a document.
Comment 1 Claude 2016-03-20 23:26:52 UTC
Confirmed behavior described.  The types of notes can be reached by the shortcuts but the "insert document" cannot.

Spanish Localization.  LibreOffice 5.1.1.3
Windows 10.

Claude
Comment 2 Adolfo Jayme Barrientos 2016-04-04 08:14:21 UTC
This is a general problem, spanning all menus and all locales.

We’ve just got a script to detect duplicate accelerators: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=e667bcfa1749e6a9179b0900305f3179076dc63c

With this, it should be easier for anybody to contribute to fix the problem by sending suggestions at: https://translations.documentfoundation.org/es/libo_ui
Comment 3 Roy Reese 2016-04-12 18:22:14 UTC
Great addition, but I think there is a human/user-side consideration as well. The problem here is the new sub-menu created by the merging of headers and footers into one item on the drop-down. Is this really the best for the user?

In this specific case, I use footers nearly every day, but cannot recall the last time I used a header. Others may have the opposite experience or use both frequently. While I suppose that the burgeoning of menu entries led to the decision to combine these, it means an extra step for those who use one of the features on the sub-menu, and is bothersome when the user uses only or predominantly one of 2+ items.

While I have tried to resist any sort of knee-jerk reaction to change, I think that the menu reorganizations require a review and/or significant user input.

This comments take us a bit further afield from the bug report, so will be happy to make these on an feature request (new or ongoing) or other appropriate forum.
Comment 4 QA Administrators 2017-05-22 13:27:53 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 5 Roy Reese 2017-05-22 19:12:32 UTC
Accelerator for "instert document" in Spanish now changed to "u" so the original bug has been resolved.

    Alt-i U goes directly to insert document

LW 5.3.3.2 in Mageia Linux (Cauldron 6)