Bug 833449 - Alt accelerators do not work in GUI
Summary: Alt accelerators do not work in GUI
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: subscription-manager
Version: 5.9
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
: 5.9
Assignee: William Poteat
QA Contact: Entitlement Bugs
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Blocks: 771748
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-06-19 13:30 UTC by J.C. Molet
Modified: 2012-06-19 17:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2012-06-19 17:31:31 UTC
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Description J.C. Molet 2012-06-19 13:30:50 UTC
Description of problem:
The "Alt" accelerators in the new subscription-manager-gui menu system do not work and are misleading.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
subscription-manager-gui-1.0.4-1.git.3.1768f90.el5

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open up subscription-manager-gui
2. Use Alt+s to open the system menu (or Alt+h for help)
3. Attempt to use the alt accelerator of any of their sub-items. (eg: Alt+q for quit)
  
Actual results:
The alt accelerators do nothing for the sub-menu items.

Expected results:
Because the menu item has an underlined letter, you would normally assume that the letter hints at it's alt+accelerator.

There are two possible acceptable solutions for this:
1) Enable the alt+accelerator items so that they work as expected. I think this would be the best solution as many other gnome programs also use this.

--OR-- 

2) Remove the underlines on the accelerator letters.  Since every menu item also lists out its alternate Ctrl+ accelerator next to it, the users still have a keyboard shortcut they can use.

I could see arguments for either solution, but my vote is for 1).

Comment 1 RHEL Program Management 2012-06-19 13:47:56 UTC
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product Management has
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for
potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release for currently
deployed products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in
a release.

Comment 2 William Poteat 2012-06-19 17:31:31 UTC
Second level menus use single letter without the use of Alt. This is consistent with other programs.


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