306010 - Treat explicit and implicit menu items access keys equally

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: UI Widgets, defect)

Description

[:deanis74]

From bug 261985:

Interesting.  IE has similar menu items (_A_dd to Favorites and _O_rganize
Favorites).  If I add a bookmark named "Other", pressing 'O' will properly cycle
between the two menu items.

However, I made a WinForm that has two menu items starting with 'O'.  One had an
explicitly-defined access key (_O_pen) and the other didn't (Other).  Pressing
'O' would execute the Open menu item.

I assume that we want to be like IE in this case.  As such, this would only be a
workaround only and I assume someone's opened a bug to:

1. Fix the underlying problem of preferring explicitly-assigned access keys.
2. Restore the access keys removed by this patch.

Comment 1

[:Gavin Sharp [email: [e-mail]]]

If we ever fix this, much UI code (e.g. the Firefox History and Bookmarks menus) will need to re-add access keys for their static items.