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Allow pressing a keybinding to select options in the confirmation dialogues #5887

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I don't think this is idiomatic in GTK. Per the GNOME HIG, the only keybinds that should affect the dialog are:

  • Tab/Ctrl-Tab which cycles between different dialog buttons
  • Escape to cancel the action
  • Enter to execute the action only if it's not destructive (close buttons count as destructive actions)

From what I can tell the alt+y/n shortcuts are actually using the mnenomics mechanism instead, like _Y_es and _N_o. I personally really dislike this design as underlines are ugly and mnemonics only make sense in English (other languages, for instance Chinese, require the mnemonic to be bracketed after the word, like 是(Y) — I consider this a crime against humanity)

I don't think it's physical…

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