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: (unassigned) => Ted Gould (ted) ** Changed in: nautilus (Ubuntu) Importance: Low => Medium ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Importance: Low => Medium ** Changed in: unity Importance: Low => Medium ** Also affects: unity-distro-priority Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Changed in: unity-distro-priority Status: New => Fix Committed ** Changed in: unity-distro-priority Importance: Undecided => Medium -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/790687 Title: nautilus desktop: Unity menu and alt key navigation Status in Unity: Confirmed Status in Unity Distro Priority: Fix Committed Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in “unity” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed 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. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/790687/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp