I'm surprised any access keys works. Since there is not an underscore indicating that the menu item has an access key, I've never tried it. I use <ALT>F1, then arrow keys to select items. In general the menu is behaving like a list where the key press will select the first item that starts with that key.
I do not experience the described behaviour by the way in Ubuntu Gutsy. <Alt>F1 activates the Menu Bar. The keys 'p' and 's' do activates the Places and System menu respectively, and pressing a key will select any submenu that starts with that key. The Application menu is a problem. It is not activated by <Alt>F1, I cannot activate it with the 'a' key, even though I can see the menu items. The GNOME Main Menu also has problems. I can activate it and access the menu items, but it does not behave like application menus. Selecting an item that has a submenu should make the submenu active so that I can use keys to select an item. I think the GNOME Main Menu (and the Menu Bar used by Ubuntu) violate the HIG. Reading the guidelines at http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/menus.html.en I think the general problem is that both menus do not provide access keys. The Menus are special though, They are not verb/adjective based since they focus on things. I filed this as GNOME bug #521227 and linked ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #521227 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521227 ** Also affects: gnome-panel via http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=521227 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- Navigating the Main Application Menu using the keyboard does not work fully https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199866 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs