"alt+f" followed by "alt" brings up HUD underneath the File menu

[Alan Jenkins]

1. Open Firefox
2. Press Alt+F to open the File menu.
3. Press Alt to bring up the HUD

Actual behvaiour: HUD appears behind the File menu.

Expected behaviour:
1. *If* the HUD grabs Alt, it should cause the File menu to lose focus (which would cause it to disappear).

2. But knowing how menus work on X - they normally supress *all* global keyboard shortcuts. That includes things like volume keys, as well as e.g. Alt+F2. So it's slightly surprising for the HUD shortcut to conflict with the menu at all :).

3. Another point of consistency - once you're in the File menu, you can't use Alt+E to bring up the Edit menu. So being able to do Alt to bring up the HUD is not wonderfully consistent.

I have no strong preference, but I think it'd be better if the HUD didn't come up at all. (Unless Wayland reverses #2 above, so that showing the HUD could be considered more consistent...)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity-2d 5.12.0-0ubuntu1.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu11
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jul 18 16:13:49 2012
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity-2d
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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

[Alan Jenkins (aj504)]

Also present in unity (3D, i.e. I see drop-shadows) on Ubuntu 13.04. The HUD isn't _visible_ behin the menu, so the steps to reproduce are slightly extended -

1 Open Firefox
2 Press Alt+f for File menu
3 Press Alt for the HUD
 -> nothing seems to happen
4 Press Esc to close the menu
 -> HUD appears