Re: [Usability] Navigating the Main Application Menu using the keyboard

2008-03-12 Thread Michael Chang
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Curtis Hovey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I do not experience the described behaviour by the way in Ubuntu Gutsy. > F1 activates the Menu Bar. The keys 'p' and 's' do activates the > Places and System menu respectively, and pressing a key will select any > submen

Re: [Usability] Navigating the Main Application Menu using the keyboard

2008-03-12 Thread Michael Chang
(Forgot to CC the list, sorry.) On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 6:14 AM, Mathias Dahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Michael Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Have you considered asking a Question using the "Launchpad Answers" system? > > > > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ > > I did not kn

Re: [Usability] Navigating the Main Application Menu using the keyboard

2008-03-08 Thread Jasir Alavi
Hi.. new to the form, so excuse me if this is already discussed. few features i'd like to see in nautilus: 1. tabs 2. split screens (like what split browser extension does to firefox) 3. Some shortcut for quick duplication of a window/tab 4. different size, view, position, background and font

Re: [Usability] Navigating the Main Application Menu using the keyboard

2008-03-08 Thread Curtis Hovey
On Sat, 2008-03-08 at 08:10 -0800, Kirk Bridger wrote: > My guess is that this is simply a reflection of a common issue with > keyboard accelerators: sometimes the menu has more than 1 word > starting with the same letter. > > In this case, if 'P' went to programming, how would someone get to the

Re: [Usability] Navigating the Main Application Menu using the keyboard

2008-03-08 Thread Mathias Dahl
Kirk Bridger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My guess is that this is simply a reflection of a common issue with > keyboard accelerators: sometimes the menu has more than 1 word > starting with the same letter. Maybe, but while inside the menus this works by jumping between different items starting

Re: [Usability] Navigating the Main Application Menu using the keyboard

2008-03-08 Thread Kirk Bridger
My guess is that this is simply a reflection of a common issue with keyboard accelerators: sometimes the menu has more than 1 word starting with the same letter. In this case, if 'P' went to programming, how would someone get to the top-level "Places" without using the cursor keys?  I'm sure P

Re: [Usability] Navigating the Main Application Menu using the keyboard

2008-03-08 Thread Mathias Dahl
"Michael Chang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you considered asking a Question using the "Launchpad Answers" system? > > https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ I did not know about that site. However, it seems to be for "Q and A" rather than design issues like the one I am talking about. Than

Re: [Usability] Navigating the Main Application Menu using the keyboard

2008-03-07 Thread Michael Chang
On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 8:44 PM, Mathias Dahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I find keyboard navigation of the main application menu a bit > confusing. After opening it with Alt+F1 and typing `p' it is not the > Programming sub menu that opens, as I would have guessed. Instead it is > t