Weird shortcut

[Julien Rottenberg]

I use ALT + d to get in the address bar * , unfortunately on the dapper version this shortcut open the Help Menu.

* I know CTRL + l is the documented way, but many users, including me, only use ALT + d

[Julien Rottenberg (jrottenberg)]

Some comment :

ALT + d open the _H_elp Menu because Help in french is Ai_d_e

After extraction of fr.jar, fr/locale/browser/baseMenuOverlay.dtd :

<!ENTITY helpMenu.accesskey "d">
<!-- LOCALIZATION NOTE some localizations of Windows (ex:french, german) use "?" for the help button in the menubar but Gnome does not. -->

But on fr/locale/browser/browser.dtd :

<!ENTITY urlbar.accesskey "d"> <-- For both english and french versions.

so it seems that helpMenu.accesskey has a better 'priority' than urlbar.accesskey

This behavior is new on Dapper, for the breezy file (they split browser.dtd and baseMenuOverlay.dtd on 1.5 apparently) browser.dtd :

<!ENTITY helpMenu.label "Aide">
<!ENTITY helpMenu.accesskey "A">

[...]

<!ENTITY urlbar.accesskey "d">

It's ok Gnome if doesn't use '?' for the Help menu, but switch back from Ai_d_e to _A_ide (so back to Alt + a for help menu) will help users to get less confused...

[Julien Rottenberg (jrottenberg)]

I found this : http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-standard.html

<<The same commands must also behave the same way in different applications, to avoid surprising the user.>>

On gnome-terminal, Evolution, Nautilus, gedit the Help menu (Aide) is available via the accesskey 'a' _A_ide .

For Mozilla Firefox the accesskey is d.

I can regenerate a modified version of fr.jar if you want.

[Adam Niedling (krychek)]

Works for me in Hardy. Recheck and reopen the report if this is still an issue.