Bug 160424 - Poor keyboard mnemonic ("access key") for field insertion in French
Summary: Poor keyboard mnemonic ("access key") for field insertion in French
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Localization (show other bugs)
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24.2.1.2 release
Hardware: All All
: medium trivial
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Reported: 2024-03-29 21:10 UTC by Philippe Cloutier
Modified: 2024-04-28 15:31 UTC (History)
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Description Philippe Cloutier 2024-03-29 21:10:05 UTC 
LibreOffice offers inserting fields via the Insert → Field (..GenericCommands.UserInterface.Popups..uno:FieldMenu) submenu. In French, the labels are Insertion → Champ ( https://translations.documentfoundation.org/translate/libo_ui-24-2/officecfgregistrydataorgopenofficeofficeui/fr/?checksum=dafb349d93f99e6f ), and the first letter of "Champ" ("C") is the mnemonic.

While this works (reasonably) well in most applications, that choice is very poor in Writer, where 2 other items of the Insert menu share the same mnemonic ("Section…" and "Cadre"), including a submenu (Frame). This means that for example, to insert a Date with Writer using keyboard shortcuts, one would need to type:
Alt + I, C, C, Left arrow, C, D, D, Enter
This is time-consuming *and* non-trivial to discover.

I suppose that field insertion must also consider Calc, but I think the mnemonic should be changed. Choosing "p" as the mnemonic may be better, although imperfect. As things stand, it would have a much lesser conflict with "Repère de texte" (WriterCommands.UserInterface.Commands..uno:InsertBookmark), which could itself use a different mnemonic.