Bug 680568 - The gear menu needs a keyboard shortcut
The gear menu needs a keyboard shortcut
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Keyboardability
3.5.x
Other Linux
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Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
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Reported: 2012-07-25 02:34 UTC by Jeremy Bicha
Modified: 2012-07-25 09:43 UTC (History)
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Description Jeremy Bicha 2012-07-25 02:34:11 UTC 
The menu bar in Nautilus 3.4 was easy to navigate with the keyboard. Press Alt+F to open the file menu, Alt+E to open the edit menu, and so on. Or press Alt to focus the menu bar and just use the arrow keys to navigate.

The gear menu (introduced in GNOME with Epiphany 3.2) does not seem to have an obvious keyboard shortcut. This is an important requirement for accessibility.

Perhaps Alt, Alt+F, and F10 should all trigger the gear menu. (Super+F10 is used for the Shell appmenu.)

Navigation keyboard shortcuts are listed at http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/keyboard-nav.html .
Comment 1 Cosimo Cecchi 2012-07-25 09:43:06 UTC 
Thanks for the report Jeremy; I talked about this with Allan at the UX hackfest and we agreed at least F10 should trigger the gear menu. I pushed a fix for this to master and added F10 to the list of suggested standard keybindings.

https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/Design/Whiteboards/KeyboardShortcuts
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