Re: Gnome menu

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Hi.  What  is super?  I tried alt-f1, but there is nothing on the
applications menu reached by that.  If I hit control-tab twice, I get to
a top panel and it says menu bar along with some other icons.  Is this
all by design?

Dylan McCall <dylanmccall gmail com> wrote:

> That's a shame about the accident. I'm glad that GNOME and Debian have
> worked for you until now.
> 
> The new menus _should_ be accessible. May you please explain what
> about them isn't working out? I'm sure that would help to improve the
> implementation. As it is, adding a toggle between the two menu layouts
> is no simple task: with this menu redesign, the idea of grouping menu
> items under things like "Edit" and "View" is going to drift away, so
> even if the bits were in place it would be quite difficult to change
> it back (especially dynamically).
> 
> If I was to guess, the biggest problem for keyboard-accessibility is
> that the menus don't open with F10, so you have to reach them with
> Tab. Is that the gist of the problem? That might be something to
> mandate in the HIG (and maybe add at the toolkit level), because it
> _is_ quite surprising. Google Chrome, for example, is keyboard
> accessible: its wrench menu can be opened with the usual mnemonics
> (Alt+F or Alt+E). They forgot that F10 is the _real_ common
> menu-opening shortcut, but they did try :)
> 
> If you haven't already found it, the keyboard shortcut to get the
> application menu (beside Activities at the top left of the screen) is
> Super+F10. You can also use the left and right arrow keys to get
> anywhere else on the top bar. Do you find that one works okay?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dylan
> 
> 
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 9:29 AM, surma <surma hot ee> wrote:
> >
> > I’ve been using debian since 27 March of 1996, before gnome everything was quite crappy, but I started using gnome 11 June 2000, and linux turned easy. Then (2004/2005) I had a terrible car accident, I got rammed, then I spent 6 months in coma, which messed up my hands, so I can’t use mouse, that’s why I prefer keyboard. Maake a place under gconf-editor where you can choose the style of menu, so people can use either classic or modern style.
> >
> > That’s why I can’t use mouse.
> > http://www.hot.ee/surma/Surma_24.12.05.jpg
> > I built this car myself … and had an accident with it.
> >
> > This is what was left of my car.
> > http://www.hot.ee/surma/katki.jpg
> > Tanel
> >
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