Its currently impossible for me to reach the menu without using the mouse, pretty bad for a terminal app IMHO. The menu doesn't have any accelerators set and a simple <Alt> doesn't seem to work (but doesn't seem to work in any KDE4 app for that matter).
Regarding the behavior of 'Alt' - I get bug reports however I implement that (Alt+Letter, Alt on its own, no Alt) so I think a better approach is to reserve a menu access key (gnome-terminal uses Alt+F10 I think) and mention it in the UI.
Hehe. Yeah I guess a shortcut for that would be best, thats how TUI apps often do it as well - for example aptitude uses Ctrl+T
*** Bug 235798 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Git commit 6e12d788642816fd892dc7bbe5ed99d0a95a704b by Kurt Hindenburg. Committed on 18/03/2011 at 14:34. Pushed by hindenburg into branch 'master'. Create a shortcut to activate the menu bar. This allows access to the menu bar via the keyboard. BUG: 170878 FIXED-IN: 4.7 REVIEW: 100804 M +32 -0 src/MainWindow.cpp M +1 -0 src/MainWindow.h http://commits.kde.org/konsole/6e12d788642816fd892dc7bbe5ed99d0a95a704b
Git commit 5cf21b4e2e0dea00628fa5c900081cbee93007a1 by Kurt Hindenburg. Committed on 18/03/2011 at 15:59. Pushed by hindenburg into branch 'master'. Don't search for 'File' but grab the menu's first qaction. As pinotree on IRC kindly pointed out, searching for 'File' won't work in non-English menus. Now we grab the first action in the menu which should always be in for the File menu in Konsole. CCBUG: 170878 M +12 -19 src/MainWindow.cpp http://commits.kde.org/konsole/5cf21b4e2e0dea00628fa5c900081cbee93007a1