GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 653692
Nautilus should enable Enter (or Tab) key to focus sub-menu's first item
Last modified: 2016-12-04 22:43:39 UTC
Description of the problem: When using the accelerator (mnemonic) approach to access menu items which have conflicting accelerators, items which are parents of sub-menus don't have an option to jump to the first item of its sub-menu, except with the use of arrows or mouse. This breaks the flow of the movement, and the essential meaning of using accelerators. Removing conflicting accelerators is always a good choice, but its nearly impossible to remove them all, specially because they are localization dependent. Steps to reproduce: 1. Open the context menu of a file or folder, with menuKey or right click 2. Press 'o' twice, to focus 'mOve to' and reveal its menu Expected results: Pressing Enter (or Tab) should focus the first item of the subsequent menu Actual results: In order to access this subsequent menu, you must use arrow keys or mouse Version information: Ubuntu Natty nautilus 2.32.2
I couldn't find a menu with submenu items on 3.22, so I couldn't reproduce the issue. Please feel free to reopen this bug report if the problem still occurs with a recent version of GNOME.