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
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Navigating the Main Application Menu using the keyboard does not work fully
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/199866
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