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CalRoberttoday at 1:27 PM2 repliesview on HN

They used to be discoverable with mnemonics (underlined letters) but those have been dead nearly thirty years…


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p-ttoday at 1:52 PM

these still exist on windows though? you just hold alt

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saint_yossariantoday at 2:07 PM

I wouldn't say they're dead, just more hidden (e.g. GTK4 only shows them when you hold Alt). AFAIK most toolkits still support them, but app developers also have to actually define them.