Italian Language remove (&*) from menu

[Elia0107]

Hi, please remove (&*) from Italian menu bar (Windows and Linux), or make it optional. It's ugly to see. If you want I have already made it.

[LorenzoAncora]

Hello @Elia0107,
there is no "(&*)" visible in the Italian menu bar. To the right of some items you may see brackets with a single letter, which indicates the default key combination, to make interaction easier without using a mouse. They may not be nice to see but are necessary for users who use different editors and can not always keep in mind all the fast keys or when the user starts Atom on a small screen.

Example: after opening the View menu (ALTV, when a common text file is loaded), press S to reset the original size of the text or F to activate the Fullscreen mode (F11 may not work with the menu opened).

This is an intended feature of an editor for developers: it does not have to be beautiful, but comfortable. Nevertheless, in future versions of atom-i18n they may appear differently, probably with a more pleasant appearance. ;-)

[liuderchi]

@Elia0107 there are actually room for improvement of those menu items.

It's recorded in #131. We can try preserve hotken prompt in the word if possible.

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@LorenzoAncora thanks for your information

For more info you may visit #93 (comment)

[LorenzoAncora]

@liuderchi you are welcome. :-)

Perhaps you might like a small suggestion to address the problem.
Hotkeys are indispensable for power-users (who are the main Atom users), but I know for sure that - at least on Microsoft^® Windows - menus natively support hotkey underlining, to avoid repetitions and improve appearance. From old experiences with Visual Studio^©, I can state that the hotkeys established by the XML design were underlined automatically: the WinForms should still support this mechanism, which is then accessible through the C++ API. Forcing a different look and feel on all systems may require the use of unicode: instead of appending the letter in braces, you replace an existing letter - or combination of glyphs - with a version with the underline.

In reality I doubt you will have to "reinvent the wheel" in JS, maybe there is already an elegant solution...

PS: if you update the translation policy, tag me or assign me a task / issue and I will deal with it promptly. I'm always available to help. ;-)

[tawissus]

I do not like the view either. Advanced users know the key combinations by heart.

An alternative as with other programs would be to display the letters when pressing the "Alt-key". Alternatively you can customize your language package, but then you are not allowed to update it.