Keyboard shortcuts do not work anymore

[koppor]

• Expected: I press Alt+F, then the file menu opens
• Expected: I press and hold Alt, then all menu shortcuts are shown

Doesn't JavaFX support keyboard shortcuts for menus anymore?

[tobiasdiez]

This is supported but you need to tell javafx what to underline, e.g. setText("_File"). Thus, to make this work all localizations have to be reworked to include mnemnonics. See also https://medium.com/@zoha131/handling-keyboard-shortcuts-in-javafx-2972ba950a48

[koppor]

We had these translations at JabRef 3.x. Have to search why we dropped them. There probably is the PR (where we documented it; I bet, we put it as issue for future-Olly, who found it now), but not an ADR.

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