Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 833449
Alt accelerators do not work in GUI
Last modified: 2012-06-19 13:31:31 EDT
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).
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Second level menus use single letter without the use of Alt. This is consistent with other programs.