Unity

Add keyboard shortcut for the panel

Bug #701663 reported by David Barth on 2011-01-11

This bug affects 4 people

	Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
Ayatana Design	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned
Unity	Fix Released	Medium	Neil J. Patel	Unity 3.4.4
unity (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

adding a shortcut for accessing the whole panel (ie panel wide kb shortcut, as opposed to the msging menu specific shortcut we currently have) - F10

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Related branches

lp://staging/~unity-team/unity/panel-fixes

Merged into lp://staging/unity at revision 867

Gord Allott: Pending requested 2011-02-17

lp://staging/ubuntu/natty/unity

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David Barth (dbarth) wrote on 2011-01-11:

Also adding the task to the design radar if F10 is not the right shortcut.
Note: this is the default in the Ubuntu desktop currently and something that was suggested by Luke who can be considered a representative user of accessible interfaces.

Changed in unity:
assignee:	nobody → Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
importance:	Undecided → Medium
milestone:	none → 3.2.10
status:	New → Triaged

David Barth (dbarth) on 2011-01-11

tags:

added: a11y

Neil J. Patel (njpatel) on 2011-01-18

Changed in unity:
milestone:	3.2.10 → 3.6

Mirco Müller (macslow) on 2011-01-20

Changed in unity:
assignee:	Neil J. Patel (njpatel) → Mirco Müller (macslow)

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Joanmarie (joanmarie-diggs-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2011-02-02:

Given that F10 has historically been the GNOME shortcut for getting into the menu bar of the focused application, and Alt F1 the shortcut for getting into the Application menu for the purpose of launching the available apps, I wonder if Alt F1 might be the logical choice to solve this bug....

I don't think "historical" shortcuts must be preserved; however if there's no reason *not* to preserve a shortcut, I think it might make the transition from GNOME 2 easier, especially for users who cannot use a mouse.

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Neil J. Patel (njpatel) wrote on 2011-02-07:

Will make F10 focus the first entry in the application's menu in the panel. Alt+F1 has been implemented as a way to get to the first launcher item.

Changed in unity:
assignee:	Mirco Müller (macslow) → Neil J. Patel (njpatel)
milestone:	3.6 → 3.4.4

Neil J. Patel (njpatel) on 2011-02-13

Changed in unity:
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks) on 2011-02-18

Changed in unity:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released
Changed in ayatana-design:
status:	New → Fix Released

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) (3v1n0) on 2014-07-25

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Fix Released

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