Thanks for the info and the links, two observations: (1) The Windows behaviour of pressing and releasing the Alt key to activate the text menu is a more "accessible" default behaviour for those who cannot or have difficulty with pressing keys simultaneously (versus the Linux behaviour which requires Alt+<some_other_key>).
(2) As LO is cross platform I think the idea of a LO setting for choosing the preferred Alt key behaviour is a good idea so that users can work with LO in a consistent fashion regardless of the OS/DE/Theme of computer being used. On Sun, Jul 3, 2016 at 2:20 PM, V Stuart Foote <vstuart.fo...@utsa.edu> wrote: > @Bruce, * > > > Bruce Hohl wrote > > On Linux pressing and holding the Alt key "activates" text menu (File, > > Edit, View, etc). On Windows pressing then releasing the Alt key > "actives" > > the text menu. Does anyone know how to get Linux to behave like Windows > > for > > the Alt key or vice versa? > > Unfortunately you can not. > > Recent work done to make the handling of Accelerators compliant with GTK+ > v3, on GTK+3 compliant desktop environments implemented a desired behavior > or simply toggling the assigned mnemonic accelerators visible (e.g. the > underlined character to be pressed to activate the action). > > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92630 > > But, on GTK+2 and Windows and OS X the adjustments have been somewhat > unwelcome and cause disruption in the handling of the Accelerators. As you > note on Windows the <Atl> key moves focus to the main menu--and then the > mnemonic key must be entered to navigate. Previously they were handled as > paired <Alt>+key values. > > You can get some feel for the issue in the proposal to make the GTK+ toggle > optional in non-GTK+3 Desktop Environments. > > https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99326 > > So, the issue is still be kicked around. > > Stuart > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/Alt-Key-tp4187824p4187831.html > Sent from the Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
