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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | YaST Menu Bar in NCurses missing standard key handling | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE Tumbleweed | Reporter: | Stefan Hundhammer <shundhammer> |
| Component: | YaST2 | Assignee: | YaST Team <yast-internal> |
| Status: | CONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | Jiri Srain <jsrain> |
| Severity: | Normal | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | CC: | ancor, dgonzalez, jlopez, locilka |
| Version: | Current | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
| URL: | https://trello.com/c/gAkzTDEv | ||
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| Found By: | --- | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
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Description
Stefan Hundhammer
2020-08-18 09:10:19 UTC
Stefan, it would be nice to have some feedback from Mageia guys first. How they use their menu bar? How much is that compatible with the new "upstream" solution? For some reason we have our own solution, so I guess we want to offer them our one as a replacement. I guess they also have some key handling there? Are there any more features that they would really miss and can't switch? I don't see a connection with this bug. This bug is about standard behaviour; the way that other menu systems are handling keys, i.e. the way that users expect it to behave. It's the only bug (well a feature request) that wants to continue with the implementation before we know how to continue in general. The connection is simple: to get feedback before we decide how to invest our time. The Mana implementation probably has some shortcut conflict in ncurses https://github.com/manatools/libyui-mga/blob/master/screenshots/MenuBar-ncurses.png And I don't see any shortcurts in Qt https://github.com/manatools/libyui-mga/blob/master/screenshots/MenuBar-Qt.png The same for GTK https://github.com/manatools/libyui-mga/blob/master/screenshots/MenuBar-Gtk.png (but they, e.g., do support icons [yes, unrelated] in graphical interface) (In reply to Stefan Hundhammer from comment #0) > The new MenuBar widget in libyui-ncurses is still missing some standard key > handling that is present in all other menu systems: > > - In a toplevel menu, [Return] and [Space] should > open the menu. > > - In a submenu, [Backspace] should go one menu level up. Is this actually standard? I am playing with some apps (Firefox, Thunderbird, some gtk apps) and backspace does nothing. > > - The highlighted hotkeys only work with [Alt], not also as > plain keys: When the "File" menu is open, [Alt][Q] triggers > the "quit" action, just [Q] does not. In fact, it seems that the standard way to work is with plain keys. In all cases I have played with, the options list of a menu only reacts to a plain key (without alt). This solves the conflict with other hotkeys. For top level menus, we use (alt + hotkey), and once a menu is open, we use plain key. So we could jump to another top level menu with alt + hotkey without conflicting with any shortcut of the current menu list. BTW, in gnome shell is challenging to find an app with a classical menu bar. > > > To discuss: > > - When the "View" menu is open, [Alt][F] does not open > the "File" menu. > > This might clash with the shortcut conflict resolver, > but IMHO users might still expect this to work. |
