https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=157649
--- Comment #5 from [email protected] --- (In reply to Buovjaga from comment #3) > I tested some Microsoft applications and the behaviour varies. With Notepad, > I don't have to use Alt to trigger actions in the "what to do with unsaved > file" dialog (pressing Alt shows hints on what they are). However, this > dialog is using different widgetry compared to the Save As dialog and in > that one, I explicitly have to press Alt-S to save. If I may chip in here: the "Save As" dialog always has some other element selected, like the filename text box, the file type drop-down, the directory structure, something. So, it can't react to just "S" or "C". HOWEVER If you type in a file name and tab-tab-tab to activate one of the two buttons (Save or Cancel), then ACCELERATORS WORK WITHOUT ALT! Let me repeat: if the active element is one that doesn't use keyboard inputs, accelerators work with a single key, no Alt required! Or if there are no other elements but only buttons, accelerators work just fine on their own. Obviously, you can't have accelerators work whilst the active element is, for example, the filename text box, that would be stupid. Or the directory structure, again, you press letter keys to help select stuff or go faster. But when the active element is a button, or when there are only buttons, accelerators work as they should. Without Alt. Now, I don't know what "other operating systems" are doing, and frankly, I don't care. Windows programs have been working like that since forever. Choosing to change an expected behaviour just because "other operating systems" do it differently is stupid. Other operating systems are OTHER operating systems. macOS has the "window close" button on the top left, should we change LO in Windows to also have the "close window" button on the left as well, just because "other operating systems" do? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
