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Bug 665318 - add a keybinding to open the app menu
add a keybinding to open the app menu
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 672909
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-12-01 18:46 UTC by Matthias Clasen
Modified: 2012-05-07 14:04 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: 3.6
GNOME version: ---


Description Matthias Clasen 2011-12-01 18:46:12 UTC 
This will make life easier when we start adopting the app menu seriously.
Comment 1 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2011-12-09 14:49:10 UTC 
This strongly implies the want of mnemonics in the menu...
Comment 2 Matthias Clasen 2011-12-09 17:38:55 UTC 
I don't think so.
You want a fixed, unchanging key combination for this.
Something like Alt-F3.
Comment 3 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2011-12-09 18:33:53 UTC 
But after you hit Alt-F3 you might expect to be able to hit 'X' to activate the item inside the menu...
Comment 4 Matthias Clasen 2011-12-09 18:56:22 UTC 
none of the other shell menus have mnemonics
Comment 5 Allison Karlitskaya (desrt) 2011-12-09 22:41:33 UTC 
and (afaik) they don't have hotkeys to access them

of course, you could do alt+f3, down, down, down, down, enter... but that leaves something to be desired...
Comment 6 Matthias Clasen 2012-05-07 12:57:18 UTC 
I think this should probably be a blocker, considering we're now pushing for widespread adoption of app menu in 3.6
Comment 7 Florian Müllner 2012-05-07 13:27:23 UTC 
(In reply to comment #6)
> I think this should probably be a blocker, considering we're now pushing for
> widespread adoption of app menu in 3.6

Except that we've had that keybinding since 3.4.1 :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 672909 ***