Desktop menu doesn't react to alt key (i.e alt-f) navigation

Bug #790687 reported by Ed Lin
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This bug affects 18 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Unity
Triaged
Low
Unassigned
Unity Distro Priority
Fix Committed
Medium
Unassigned
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: nautilus

Under Unity if you press the alt key the global menu becomes focused and you can select menu items via alt+f (File), alt+e (Edit) and so on. This works with all applications, except when the desktop is focused. For consistency reasons and keyboard navigation nautilus desktop too needs an alt-key navigateable menu.

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Robert Roth (evfool) wrote :

Confirming this, as this is required to have a consistent behavior.
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Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in unity:
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Confirmed, that's still an issue in Oneiric

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in unity:
importance: Undecided → Low
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Neil Munro (neilmunro-deactivatedaccount) wrote :
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Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) wrote :

I think this is related to ted's patch (maybe initial menu doesn't have accelerator?). I'm assigning it to it and as people seem puzzled about it on the tests, I raise the priority to medium + unity distro priority

Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ted Gould (ted)
importance: Low → Medium
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Low → Medium
Changed in unity:
importance: Low → Medium
Changed in unity-distro-priority:
status: New → Fix Committed
importance: Undecided → Medium
Tim Penhey (thumper)
tags: added: distro-priority
Omer Akram (om26er)
Changed in unity:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Joel Pickett (jpickett) wrote :

Still an issue in precise

summary: - nautilus desktop: Unity menu and alt key navigation
+ Desktop menu doesn't react to alt key (i.e alt-f) navigation
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → Low
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
importance: Medium → Low
Changed in unity:
importance: Medium → Low
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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu Package testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/790687

tags: added: package-qa-testing
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Jim Hodapp (jhodapp) wrote :

Confirmed as still being an issue in Quantal.

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Nice Testhouse (testhouse) wrote :

Week 42 - Same issue observed on Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal with ppa:unity-team/sru as reported in this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1062304

Commenting here due to the duplicate comment.

Ted Gould (ted)
Changed in nautilus (Ubuntu):
assignee: Ted Gould (ted) → nobody
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