Bug 187897

Summary:	menu activates when pressed "alt"
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Rohit Jain <mail>
Component:	kstyle	Assignee:	Maksim Orlovich <maksim>
Status:	RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cfeck, mattr
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	unspecified
OS:	Linux
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Description Rohit Jain 2009-03-23 03:16:12 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.2.1)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Unlisted Binary Package

When I press "alt", menu is activated in kopete. So, suppose I press "alt" thinking I will press "tab" later to change the window, and then I don't do that, and then I press F (for writing something), file menu is activated. This (for me atleast) has become quite normal thing, and is of course irritating. I would be glad if this could be removed, or if there could be an option to disable this. I do not see non-kde applications with this thing.

Comment 1 Matt Rogers 2009-03-23 03:52:37 UTC

I can't reproduce this. Kopete 0.70.0 with KDE 4.2.1 on Arch Linux with the KDEMod packages.

Comment 2 Rohit Jain 2009-03-23 04:49:17 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> I can't reproduce this. Kopete 0.70.0 with KDE 4.2.1 on Arch Linux with the
> KDEMod packages.

Try this : Open kopete (or a chat window in kopete) and then press "alt". And then press F or C, and see if menu opens up. 

May be I couldn't explain my point clearly in first msg.

Comment 3 Matt Rogers 2009-03-23 20:35:53 UTC

I still can't reproduce this. If i hit the 'Alt' key (not holding it down) and then hit 'f' in a kopete chat window, the letter 'f' goes into the input area. The same thing happens if i type 'F' (Shift+F) as well.

Comment 4 Rohit Jain 2009-03-23 22:08:04 UTC

(In reply to comment #3)
> I still can't reproduce this. If i hit the 'Alt' key (not holding it down) and
> then hit 'f' in a kopete chat window, the letter 'f' goes into the input area.
> The same thing happens if i type 'F' (Shift+F) as well.

Strange... I discussed this on #kde as well, and people were able to reproduce this.

Comment 5 Christoph Feck 2009-03-25 06:20:18 UTC

Matt, do you happen to use QtCurve or a different Qt style? There is a style hint that Qt queries for the menu (QStyle::SH_MenuBar_AltKeyNavigation) and Oxygen returns true here (as do most other styles, since it is the default on KDE since ever).

Comment 6 Matt Rogers 2009-03-26 02:05:37 UTC

nope, standard oxygen style

Comment 7 Christoph Feck 2009-03-26 02:36:30 UTC

Sorry for the confusion, I was wrong.

It is Qt's Windows style that sets this property, so all styles that inherit Windows (Plastique, Cleanlooks, GTK, Mac, WindowsXP, WindowsVista, Skulpture, QtCurve, ...) have that AltKey feature.

Rohit, which style do you use? Try with Oxygen or Bespin style.

Comment 8 Rohit Jain 2009-03-26 02:44:43 UTC

Well, this doesn't help. I tried Oxygen and Plastik both. I see this behavior only in kopete. In konversion and kontact, it works fine.

Comment 9 Christoph Feck 2010-03-14 17:13:46 UTC

What is the status of this bug? Please provide the following information:

* Is the bug still visible with KDE SC 4.4?
* Is there a way to reproduce it on a clean user account?

To  fix this bug in Kopete or KDE Platform libraries, we need this additional information.