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
This is a bug in appmenu-qt/libdbusmenu-qt... It's working with gtk apps. Please report upstream.
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.
Hmm, appmenu-qt/libdbusmenu-qt are hosted on launchpad... ;)
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.
For information, here on openSUSE with KDE 4.11, i can't reproduce this bug!!! Really strange!
Thank you Cédric. Perhaps I should file the issue with Ubuntu instead?
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.
ArchLinux and KDE 4.11: bug fixed here.