They used to be discoverable with mnemonics (underlined letters) but those have been dead nearly thirty years…
replythese still exist on windows though? you just hold alt
replyOnly works for like 20% of the menus though. I remember alt shortcuts reliably being on every single menu in early Windows (95? ME? XP?)
replyThey died when people stopped using native toolkits and started making everything an electron app.
replyEconomics be damned, if you're going to make a native app, use the OS provided toolkits.
Hah, I was thinking 3.1…
replyGTK (and QT I do believe) also support this on GNU/Linux.
replyI wouldn't say they're dead, just more hidden (e.g. GTK4 only shows them when you hold Alt). AFAIK most toolkits still support them, but app developers also have to actually define them.
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