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Build 20021017 The menu bar mnemonics in GTK do not work. STEPS 1) Select a view 2) Hit F10 - File entry will be highlighted 3) Hit the key for one of other mnemonics - nothing will happen
The problem is more that the menu gets rendered when you hit F10 so any atempts to use the mnemonics for the bar are lost as the menu takes the keystroke.
Seems to work fine in gedit (another GTK app). NOTE: It only seems to fail when using F10 to access the menu. Typing Alt+F to get the file menu and then typing the mnemonic works.
*** Bug 48848 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Mnemonics should work -- even if the menu is triggered by "F10". Notice that opening the menu with a mnemonic allows other mnemonics to work. Opening the menu with "F10" or the mouse does not allow mnemonics to work (contrary to other gtk apps).
Doug, I think whatever application you were using may have fooled you, as this is definitely platform behaviour. Eclipse's menus act the same as other GTK+ applications on my system. When you hit F10, the menu appears, but focus is still in the menu bar itself. Mnemonics for other top-level menus work a this point. F10 + W will open the Window menu, for example. Hitting the down arrow also brings focus into a specific menu. Once focus is inside the menu, the mnemonics in there work. Here is a bug report which shows the upstream intent: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80559 I am closing this as WONTFIX.
I'm not sure why this bug was closed. Let me explain. The following applications bring focus to the first menu, post the menu, and mnemonics are tied to the first menu: gedit, anjuta, gimp, gnome control center, etc.... The following applications bring focus to the menu bar, do not post, and mnemonics are tied to the menu bar (the behaviour described in Bug 80559): firefox Eclipse brings focus to the file menu and posts the file menu, but yet mnemonics don't work anywhere. This is neither of the above options, and so I'm not sure how you can say that Eclipse is acting in a native manner. This occurs on KDE 3.3.2, GTK+ 2.4.14, with the GNOME applications pulled from GNOME 2.8.1.
I was able to reproduce the problem by reverting back to a GTK+ 2.4-series release. There has been a change in GTK+ 2.6 to how mnemonics work for menu bars. In GTK+ 2.4 and earlier, mnemonics required the user to use Alt. Hit F10 followed by Alt-E in Eclipse. This posts and focuses the Edit menu. In GTK+ 2.6, you can now just use F10 followed by E to post and focus the Edit menu. See: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101309 GNOME applications using libbonoboui have a hack which forwards key press events, causing mnemonics to work even though the menu bar still has focus, not the posted menu. When I created a small GTK+ test application, its behaviour was identical to Eclipse when using F10. The hack does not apply under GTK+ 2.6, which is why GTK+ applications now all behave the same for me, including Eclipse. Some more discussion relevant to bonobo applications can be found here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89336 One thing that puzzles me though is that Eclipse and gimp (which does not use bonobo either) both have the same F10 behaviour on my machine. Hitting F10 and then Q does not quit the gimp for me (gimp 2.0.2) under GTK+ 2.4. Can you try again with yours?
You are right: GIMP and Eclipse have the same behaviour. The information about bonobo fills in the missing piece in my head. Feel free to close this bug again.
WONTFIX since this is platform behaviour.
