File / Favorites menu suggestion in SQL window

From: Steve Midgley <public(at)misuse(dot)org>
To: pgadmin-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: File / Favorites menu suggestion in SQL window
Date: 2007-07-16 16:37:12
Message-ID: 20070716163730.B03DA9FB633@postgresql.org
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Hello,

I hope this is an appropriate email to this list. First of all, PgAdmin
is a great tool and I use it all the time. Thank you all for building
and contributing to it. I also searched the mail archives and didn't
see this issue reported already..

Problem:
I use Windows XP sp2 and have noticed that in recent additions of
PgAdmin, in the SQL sub-application there are two top level menus with
the same letter:

File | Favorites

This creates a situation where some very common Windows key strokes no
longer work in this application. For example, almost every application
in Windows will respond to:

Alt-F-S => Save file

But in the SQL app, because there are two "F" activated letters (they
both have an underline under the "F"), Windows will not open the File
menu when a user presses "Alt-F"

Suggested resolution:
Change the "activated letter" for _F_avorites to F_a_vorites (move the
menu option from "F" => "a").

(I used to do a little Windows programming and in a few development
environments I would have changed "&Favorites" to "F&avorites" - not
sure if that's a generic Windows API syntax or not).

If this suggestion isn't clear, please just let me know. Again, I truly
appreciate this powerful and open source tool, and all of your
contributions to it. (And I welcome feedback if this email is not
appropriate to this list).

Sincerely,

Steve Midgley

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