Open Bug 417992 Opened 16 years ago Updated 2 years ago

Menu items don't show their sub-menu when selected through keyboard

Categories

(Toolkit :: UI Widgets, defect)

x86
Linux
defect

Tracking

()

UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: adelfino, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021615 Minefield/3.0b4pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b4pre) Gecko/2008021615 Minefield/3.0b4pre

GTK+ menu items show their sub-menu when selected trough keyboard, there's a 1 sec. of delay, I think. XUL menus should follow this behavior to be consistent.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Try to navigate to a menu item that has a submenu only with the keyboard (don't press the right arrow when you are in the item)
Actual Results:  
The sub-menu does not appear.

Expected Results:  
The sub-menu should appear, like in GTK+ applications.
Version: unspecified → Trunk
Flags: blocking1.9?
Flags: wanted1.9+
Flags: blocking1.9?
Flags: blocking1.9-
Could someone confirm this, since it has been wanted1.9+?
Can someone please confirm this?
Summary: Menu items should show their sub-menu when selected trough keyboard in GTK+ platforms → Menu items should show their sub-menu when selected through keyboard in GTK+ platforms
Summary: Menu items should show their sub-menu when selected through keyboard in GTK+ platforms → Menu items don't show their sub-menu when selected through keyboard in GTK+ platforms
Summary: Menu items don't show their sub-menu when selected through keyboard in GTK+ platforms → Menu items don't show their sub-menu when selected through keyboard
I can confirm the following behaviour for Tbird 2.0.0.12 on Ubuntu in KDE with the Qt-GTK engine:

When navigating the menus with the keyboard, selecting a menu item does not open it's sub menu. The right arrow key must be pressed to open the sub menu. I add that this is consistent with other applications on the same machine, such as OpenOfice,  Firefox, and all KDE applications.

@Andres:
Do not bump or otherwise add "please confirm" to bugzilla. When someone gets to it, they will get to it. You might have to wait a few weeks (or months, or even years in some cases) but bumping a bug puts it further behind in the queue. Be patient, this is not myspace. That said, please continue filing the bugs that you do find. Thanks!
Severity: normal → S3
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