Re: Gnome menu

[Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com>]

hOn 08/26/2012 02:16 AM, covici ccs covici com wrote:
> Hi.  What  is super?  I tried alt-f1, but there is nothing on the
> applications menu reached by that.  

If you press alt+f1 the desktop moves to the overview:
http://library.gnome.org/users/gnome-help/stable/shell-introduction.html.en

If you are using Orca, Orca should expose "Overview Panel". That means
that you are right now on the main container to search for applications.
If you start to write, a search would start, and then you could navigate
with the arrows in order to select the application you want.

> 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?

Ctrl+Tab? Do you mean Ctrl+Alt+Tab?
>
> 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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