subiquity

Consider dropping “(close)” from menus

Bug #1847043 reported by Matthew Paul Thomas
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Bug Description

When reviewing design of the Help menu, Claudio Gomboli pointed out that Subiquity currently has menus that start with a “(close)” item.

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Claudio: “I don't think we need it, but it is probably something we might have a look across screens at for consistency”

I think people are familiar enough with menus that they’ll know how to close them with Esc or Left arrow. They don’t need an extra “(close)” item.

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Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox) wrote :

Currently using "right arrow" doesn't open a menu, and "left arrow" doesn't close it.

One can open a menu with enter, and close with ESC.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

I didn’t say Right arrow should open a menu: it should already be open whenever its parent is highlighted, and Right arrow should focus it, highlighting its first item.

But I did conflate closing (Esc) with defocusing (Left). Sorry for the confusion. Once those are implemented consistently with graphical toolkits, we won’t need a “(close)” item.

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