Ubuntu
gnome-panel package

gnome menu no longer uses implied mnemonics

Bug #17133 reported by Thomas M. Hinkle
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
GNOME Panel
Invalid
Medium
gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

In ubuntu warty, the applications/places menu was reasonably navegable from the
keyboard because it supported implied mnemonics (i.e. "I" opened "Internet"
submenu, "M" selected "Mozilla Firefox", etc.). This feature has disappeared in
GNOME 2.10/Ubuntu Hoary. Now the only navigation option is to use the arrow
keys, which are considerably more difficult to get at for a new user.
Truth be told, my ideal would be to have a way to enable emacs-style movement
(C-n/C-p) as well as to have mnemonics re-enabled.
For now, I'll settle for just getting the mnemonics back. This makes a big
difference for laptop use, where leaving the keyboard for the substandard
mouse-substitute (be it trackpad or trackball) is a substantial PITA.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304813: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304813

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

I've opened a bug about this upstream:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304813

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

*** Bug 20225 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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twelvegates (twelvegates) wrote :

This functionallity usually should be accomplished by the toolkit. But most
toolkits today don't.
So the functionallity should be implemented in a toolkit abstraction layer.

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twelvegates (twelvegates) wrote :

In addition to implied mnemonics there should be explicit mnemonics as well. If
a label contains an underscored letter this should be the letter used instead of
the leading one. This is usefull to avoid conflicts if multiple labels begin
with the same letter.

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Lukas Sabota (punkrockguy318) wrote :

Ie: &File &Options E&xit
for all you ex-windows programmers.

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Lukas Sabota (punkrockguy318) wrote :

Has any progress begun on this?

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Thomas M. Hinkle (thomas-hinkle) wrote :

This is fixed in dapper from what I can tell. Actually, it's back to the old behavior -- you click your key-combo to pop up a menu, then hit the down arrow, then navigate with the keyboard. It would be nice if hitting the down arrow wasn't necessary.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

fixed upstream

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

and fixed to dapper, thank you for pointing it

Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Unconfirmed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-panel:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Invalid → Unknown
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in gnome-panel:
status: Unknown → Invalid
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