On 03.08.2009, at 15:56, Graham Cox wrote:
... because the point of contextual menus is that they have a context (the click location) which activating them from the keyboard doesn't provide.
OK, nothing to do here, but notice, that Dad Bill (unlike to Dad Steve) :) uses another approach - a view, having keyboard focus, automatically activates its popup menu shortcuts, so it's easy to work with a view as by mouse, as by keyboard. The main menu, of course, can contain all shortcuts. And it will be pretty enough for a simple application interface. Nevertheless, the inability of having popup menus shortcuts in an application, having a complex UI, may cause the need of very complex or (sooner) dynamic main menu creation. Of course, it's not my case.
Another reason, why shortcuts would be useful in popup menu, is just yet another possibility to show them to user.
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