menu items without accelerators can't be accessed

Bug #913981 reported by Alexandre Provencio
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

If the extension is disabled I'm able to access items which does not have accelerators by typing their first letter. Maybe this is a gnome/gtk issue, because they have the same problem, but firefox interface does not.

* For instance, if I wanted to go to the "Recently Closed Tabs" using the keyboard:

Steps to reproduce:
1) Access the history menu by typing 'alt+s'
2) Pressing 'R' does not take you to "Restore Previous Session", "Recently Closed Tabs" or "Recently Closed Windows"

Expected Behavior: (extension disabled)
1) Access the history menu by typing 'alt+s'
2) Pressing 'R' switches between "Restore Previous Session", "Recently Closed Tabs" or "Recently Closed Windows", because they all start with 'R', even though they don't have menu accelerators assigned to them.

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

This needs to be supported by whatever is rendering the menu and handling events (in this case, Unity). However, I'm not even sure that gtk supports this feature. I think it was a Gecko only feature, so you're probably pretty much out of luck to have that supported again

affects: globalmenu-extension → gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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