Comment 15 for bug 337775

The solution, then, is to add the necessary hooks to gnome-panel, so that any panel-applet with a menu can be sanely (eg. volume control, nm-applet, ...) opened using the same keyboard sequence.

This is something that could benefit from proper fixing, as there are only so-many "special" keys and combinations available.

In this case it would actually be that FUSA would be cycled to the _left_ (wrapping around).

It's something that should most be taken upstream, as just looking along my panel there's a lot of user-interface inconsistency between applets; some highlight-themselves, some require a click, some pop-open a text-entry box, some just show a tooltip; and most of these also have a second action available via the right-click action.