Keyboard combos in menus don't look very keyboardy

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Binary package hint: light-themes

In Light theme menus, the only difference in appearance between a keyboard combo and the rest of a menu item is that the keyboard combo is less saturated.

It's possible that a keyboard combo could be more obvious, more understandable, and less distracting, if it is presented as something that looks more like keys.

For example, the "Ctrl++" keyboard combo for zooming in on something could be presented as [Ctrl‬] [+].

[Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb)]

The key combinations have to look 'keyboardy' in order to be more understandable? I don't think so... I believe they are obvious enough.

[Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)]

I haven't surveyed it (though I guess neither have you). But if I had a dollar for every person to whom I've pointed out keyboard shortcuts in menus, who has said "Oh, is that what those things are?", I'd have enough for a good meal.

[Andrea Cimitan (cimi)]

I don't have a won't fix for this, but it's a gtk+ bug

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Greg Merchan (gregory-merchan)]

U+20E3 for combining enclosing keycap
U+21E7 for Shift
U+2387 for Alt
U+2388 for Control (This is now feature on many keyboards since MS adopted it.)

So, Shift+Ctrl+S could look like ⇧⎈S or ⇧⃣⎈⃣S⃣ (I wonder how that will look on launchpad once I post the comment.)

Home, Escape, function keys, etc. are trickier.