Main menu navigation glitch when gtk_key_theme=Emacs

[Зоран Рилак]

Binary package hint: gnome-panel

When GConf key /desktop/gnome/interface/gtk_key_theme is set to Emacs, main menu exhibits odd behavior. When invoked via Alt-F1, whereas pressing down arrow on the keyboard intuitively moves the selection from the main menu item itself onto the first entry below, that is not the case with Ctrl-N: it advances the selection from "Applications" to "Places", which is horizontal movement (for horizontally oriented menu, at least). Both Ctrl-N and Ctrl-P will move the selection horizontally, between "Applications", "Places" and "System", until either Ctrl-B or Ctrl-F is pressed: at that point the selection moves into the currently open submenu and things get restored to their normal, non-axis-swapped state.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug. What version of ubuntu are you using? Why do you expect those actions to react this way?

[Зоран Рилак (zoran.rilak)]

Hello Sebastian,

thanks for responding. This is Ubuntu 7.10. I expect menu's behavior
to be consistent across key schemas. When the main menu entries are
selected (immediately after pressing Ctrl-F1 by default), Emacs key
combinations behave in a manner orthogonal to their intent: Ctrl-P and
Ctrl-N move horizontally, while Ctrl-F and Ctrl-B will open a submenu.
With the arrow keys, there is no discrepancy: left and right arrows will
change the currently selected main menu entry, and up/down arrows will
open a submenu.

Zoran

On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 13:41 +0000, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> Thank you for your bug. What version of ubuntu are you using? Why do you
> expect those actions to react this way?
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
> Importance: Undecided => Low
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

unconfirming, to send upstream by somebody having the issue and an opinion on how the emacs mode should be working

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

could somebody having the issue send it to bugzilla.gnome.org?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

We are closing this bug report as it lacks the information, described in the previous comments, we need to investigate the problem further. However, please reopen it if you can give us the missing information and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future.