Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] What are the technical terms for the Alt+F O and Ctl-O accele

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2003 18:23:40 -0800
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:26:32PM -0800, Richard Sharpe wrote:
> If you look at an Ethereal Menu, like, say, the File menu, there are two 
> types of keyboard accelerators to get you to some dialog boxes:
> 
>   Alt+F O and Ctl+O will get you to the Open dialog box.
> 
> Do each of those accelerators have different technical names?

At least in some toolkits/desktop environments, yes.

On Windows, the Alt+ items are called "mnemonics", and the Ctrl+ items
are called "accelerators".  Those names are also used on at least some
UNIX+X desktops, I think.