only shows the access keys when you hit alt

<hyatt> although i view it as extremely minor and will probably put it off to like 0.9

This isn't Phoenix-specific. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 25894 ***

thanks for the note dean. I suspect that when hyatt gets around to this (unless someone beats him to it) that he'll implement it in such a way that it could be hooked up to seamonkey as well. Just in case that doesn't happen let's keep both bugs.

OK, sure. Note that I did some investigation into the messages, etc., that Windows uses over in the other bug.

enhancement.

I think turning off the access key visability hurts usability because it reduces the ease of discovery of the access keys. I dont understand why you would want to remove them, except maybe for aesthetic reasons and even then I think it is a small sacrifice for usability. Comments on bug 25894 mention the downsides, but no explaination of why it should be done. I would be very interested if you could explain.

>I dont understand why you would want to remove them, except maybe for aesthetic >reasons and even then I think it is a small sacrifice for usability. This should be implemented on Windows 2000 (and presumably XP,) for consistency with other Win2k applications, which use the system-wide preference to show the access keys or not.

Taking QA Contact as designated owner of Firebird-Menus. Sorry for bugspam.

In line with Comment 7, I think the summary for this bug should be changed to 'respect Windows Access Keys display pref', as this can be changed in Control Panel. The default preference in 2000 and XP is for them not to be shown until Alt is pressed. More info about the correct behaviour and how to read the Windows pref is avaliable at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnacc/html/ATG_KeyboardShortcuts.asp go to the Underlining Access Keys heading.

Good suggestion. I'm changing the summary to reflect the more accurate description. Prog.

This is just a dupe, we're not going to do anything except what core XUL does.