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.
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.
> 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.
looks like a duplicate of #154755. And in KDE-4.7, you can activate the menubar through keyboard shortcut.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 154755 ***