Bug 319988

Summary:	Keyboard accelerators do not work with Top-Screen Menubar
Product:	[Plasma] kded-appmenu	Reporter:	Dotan Cohen <kde-2011.08>
Component:	top menubar	Assignee:	Cédric Bellegarde <web>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Severity:	normal	CC:	gregap, kde-2011.08
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Dotan Cohen 2013-05-18 16:43:10 UTC

In KDE 4.10, when the Top-Screen Menubar is enabled [1]  the user cannot press i.e. Alt-f to open the File menu, Alt-e to open the Edit menu, etc.

In all the applications that I have tested (Kate, Konqueror, others), simply pressing Alt-f does not work. In Kate it can be seen that pressing 'Alt-f' actually prints 'f' to the editor. Even when the mouse causes the menu bar to drop down Alt-f still does not activate the File menu (nor do any of the other keyboard shortcuts work). The user should not need to use his mouse to access the menu bar, that is the whole purpose of having the keyboard shortcut in the first place!

[1] I am referring to the option set here:
System Settings -> Application Appearance -> Style -> Fine Tuning -> Menubar -> Menubar style: Top screen menubar

Comment 1 Cédric Bellegarde 2013-07-15 09:29:07 UTC

This is a bug in appmenu-qt/libdbusmenu-qt...

It's working with gtk apps.

Please report upstream.

Comment 2 Dotan Cohen 2013-07-15 11:03:04 UTC

Thank you Cédric, I've filed the bug here:
https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-32434

If you can add additional information to the bug that would be appreciated. Thanks.

Comment 3 Cédric Bellegarde 2013-07-16 10:00:49 UTC

Hmm, appmenu-qt/libdbusmenu-qt are hosted on launchpad... ;)

Comment 4 Dotan Cohen 2013-07-17 15:11:51 UTC

Thank you, here is the corrected bug. If you can add any insight to that bug it would be appreciated.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/appmenu-qt/+bug/1202247

Thank you Cédric.

Comment 5 Cédric Bellegarde 2013-07-18 13:36:36 UTC

For information, here on openSUSE with KDE 4.11, i can't reproduce this bug!!!

Really strange!

Comment 6 Dotan Cohen 2013-07-18 16:20:43 UTC

Thank you Cédric. Perhaps I should file the issue with Ubuntu instead?

Comment 7 Gregor Petrin 2013-08-21 10:34:27 UTC

I realized this bug report has been upstreamed, I would just like to add that I have the same bugin my distribution as well. I am using OpenSUSE 12.2.

Comment 8 Cédric Bellegarde 2013-08-21 14:15:29 UTC

ArchLinux and KDE 4.11: bug fixed here.