Bug 184448

Summary:	missing shortcuts in konsole
Product:	[Applications] konsole	Reporter:	ororo munroe <ororo>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Konsole Developer <konsole-devel>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	adaptee, robertknight
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian stable
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description ororo munroe 2009-02-15 20:50:43 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.1.3)
Installed from:    Debian stable Packages

As I already wrote here:
 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=184299
konsole lacks the keyboard shorcuts for open the menus.
E.g. in the menu "Edit" one would expect that the letter "E" is underlined and Alt+E would open the menu.
But there are no underlined letters.
This, at least, happens in the Italian translation.

In that topic, people answered me that this is a wanted behaviour. For me, this behaviour is bad: imagine for a minute that your mouse is broken, and you don't remember if there is a particular short cut to open a new "tab", the easiest way would be a shortcut to open the menu. But it does not exist.
(This situation just happened to me ;)

Second observation, notice that inside the menu "Edit" there are several items (e.g. "Copy" and "Insert"), and these item *HAVE* an underlined letter for keyboard access! But that underlined letter is useless, as you don't have a way to open the menu.

Comment 1 ororo munroe 2009-02-15 21:01:31 UTC

Very sorry, please ignore the "second observation". I just realize that "Alt" let you to access the menus. Still, I don't understand what is the conflict in creating shortcuts for the menus.

Comment 2 Robert Knight 2009-02-15 21:43:12 UTC

> For me, this behaviour is bad: imagine for a minute that your mouse is broken,

This is a pretty rare edge case though.  Using KDE without a working mouse is possible but would be pretty tough if you're not used to it.  A much better reason is just that accessing the menus through the keyboard is probably quicker and more convenient for people who use this feature.

> Still, I don't understand what is the conflict
> in creating shortcuts for the menus. 

Any Alt+[Letter] combination may be used by terminal applications and are in practice.  At various points in KDE 4's development Konsole had and then did not have menu shortcuts.  I got bug reports either way so I think the sensible thing is probably just to provide a setting somewhere.

Comment 3 Jekyll Wu 2011-07-29 00:26:58 UTC

looks like a duplicate of #154755. 

And in KDE-4.7, you can activate the menubar through keyboard shortcut.

Comment 4 Jekyll Wu 2011-07-30 13:40:06 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 154755 ***