Desktop menu doesn't react to alt key (i.e alt-f) navigation

[Ed Lin]

Binary package hint: nautilus

Under Unity if you press the alt key the global menu becomes focused and you can select menu items via alt+f (File), alt+e (Edit) and so on. This works with all applications, except when the desktop is focused. For consistency reasons and keyboard navigation nautilus desktop too needs an alt-key navigateable menu.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

Confirming this, as this is required to have a consistent behavior.
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[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Confirmed, that's still an issue in Oneiric

[Neil Munro (neilmunro-deactivatedaccount)]

Is this not a duplicate?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/790687

[Didier Roche-Tolomelli (didrocks)]

I think this is related to ted's patch (maybe initial menu doesn't have accelerator?). I'm assigning it to it and as people seem puzzled about it on the tests, I raise the priority to medium + unity distro priority

[Joel Pickett (jpickett)]

Still an issue in precise

[Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa)]

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu Package testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
http://packages.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/790687

[Jim Hodapp (jhodapp)]

Confirmed as still being an issue in Quantal.

[Nice Testhouse (testhouse)]

Week 42 - Same issue observed on Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal with ppa:unity-team/sru as reported in this bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1062304

Commenting here due to the duplicate comment.