Re: Gnome menu

[covici ccs covici com]

Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com> wrote:

> 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?

Yep, ctrl-alt-tab.  Sorry.

> >
> > 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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> Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias
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