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 with the same letter. So while in the Applications menu, `o' jumps between Office and Other. > In this case, if 'P' went to programming, how would someone get to the > top-level "Places" without using the cursor keys? Good point. What could be done then is to make `a' activate the Applications menu in the same way `p' activates Places. Problems solved. > The same thing happens with the 's' - it opens System rather than > Sound... Correct. > The solution might be to indicate somehow what the accelerator key is > in the menu, but the behavior makes sense to me in some ways. I've > just opened the menu and the accelerators take me to the top level > menu items. > It sounds like a design decision that made the best of a bad situation > as the designer saw it. Maybe, but I am not so sure about that. Doing as I have suggested above, letting `a' activate Applications, would be a good solution, in my opinion. My guess is that this is just something the designers overlooked. I have filed a bug record about it. /Mathias _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list Usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
