Bug 105286

Summary: enable POS1 and END keys in menu navigation
Product: [Unmaintained] kdelibs Reporter: Oliver Grimm <logistikka>
Component: qtAssignee: Stephan Kulow <coolo>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: wishlist CC: kde, l.lunak, postix
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
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Description Oliver Grimm 2005-05-08 13:08:44 UTC 
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.4.0)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

When navigating in the menu bar with the keyboard, I can use the arrow keys. However, POS1 and END are not enabled. This means that I have to go down a long way if the menu is somewhat larger. Please enable the POS1 and END keys with menu navigation. As an example for how it should work, start any GTK app, open a menu by pressing ALT+key and press END. Then try this with a native KDE app.
Comment 1 Christian Loose 2005-05-09 11:56:22 UTC 
- when your on the first item the up arrow highlights the last item
- when your on the last item the down arrow highlights the first one

So native KDE app: ALT+key and up arrow is equivalent to your GTK example.
Comment 2 Oliver Grimm 2005-05-09 12:34:05 UTC 
That's exactly what I am doing right now.
But think of the (rare) situation, where you happen to be in the middle of a longer menu and want to go to the beginning or end immediately. In that case I would have to hit ESC-ESC-ALT+key-UP

Yes, this whish is not the most important one in the world. But I filed it anyway since I guess it is not too hard to implement. It's a nano-scale improvement (so I won't give it a vote), but hey, it's still an improvement ;-)
Comment 3 Oliver Grimm 2008-03-02 13:00:08 UTC 
still not implemented in KDE 3.5.8.
still hoping for that feature.
Comment 4 sedrubal 2016-01-21 17:52:33 UTC 
I think also think this should work by default. I often miss this especially in krunner and in application launcher search:

 - Ctrl+right/left: to jump one word forward/behind
 - POS1/END: to jump to the first/last letter
Comment 5 Oliver Grimm 2022-12-21 12:33:55 UTC 
seems to be implemented now.
--> resolved: workfsforme