Note the history of why F10 was chosen is tracked in the following bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/701663 .
** Also affects: unity Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: unity (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Description changed: Unity 2d uses F10 shotcut to show menu, but many applications use this key too - a lot of IDE's bind to F10 debug function "Step over"... FireFox Firebug and Google Chrome debugger does it + a lot of IDE's bind to F10 debug function "Step over"... FireFox Firebug and Google Chrome debugger does it text editor Kate use F10 to toogle word wraping I think there are more app uses it May be unity2d should use different shotcut for mainmenu? - ProblemType: Bug - DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10 - Package: unity-2d 4.12.0-0ubuntu1 - ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4 - Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686 - ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 - Architecture: i386 - Date: Thu Oct 20 00:38:26 2011 - InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007) - PackageArchitecture: all - ProcEnviron: - LANGUAGE= - PATH=(custom, user) - LANG=en_US.UTF-8 - SHELL=/bin/zsh - SourcePackage: unity-2d - UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-10-16 (3 days ago) + ------------------------------------------- + Desired resolution: + + - The "F10" shortcut should be changed to "Alt + F10". No "F" keys + should ever be used for shell shortcuts without an additional modifier + key. This change brings the shortcut into line with the "Alt +F1" + Launcher keyboard navigation shortcut. ** Summary changed: - Unity 2d uses F10 shortcut to show menu and this is wrong + Keyboard shotcut - F10 shortcut is used to show menu and this is wrong ** Changed in: ayatana-design Assignee: (unassigned) => John Lea (johnlea) ** Changed in: ayatana-design Importance: Undecided => High ** Changed in: ayatana-design Status: New => Triaged ** Changed in: unity Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: unity (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: unity Milestone: None => backlog ** Tags added: udp -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/878492 Title: Keyboard shotcut - F10 shortcut is used to show menu and this is wrong To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/878492/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs