Re: [g-a-devel]Nautilus menu labels

[Dave Camp <dave ximian com>]

Hrm, that UI file is only be merged for the desktop window, not the
normal windows.  Are you seeing this problem for all windows?

-dave

On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 17:19, Mario Lang wrote:
> HI.  While poking around in AT-SPI I realized that Nautilus is the
> only app I've found so far which has no names for it's menus.  Actual
> menu-items and submenus are labeled, but the top menus aren't.
> 
> I now found that /usr/share/gnome-2.0/ui/nautilus-desktop-icon-view-ui.xml
> is the reason for this, quoting the file:
> 
> <menu>
>         <!-- By re-labelling these submenus to names without underscores, we
>              prevent the user from bringing up the otherwise-invisible menu bar
>              menus on the desktop from the keyboard. Setting the labels to "" in
>              code does not work (presumably Bonobo bug), but doing so here does.
>         -->
>         <submenu name="File" label=""/>
>         <submenu name="Edit" label=""/>
>         <submenu name="View" label=""/>
>         <submenu name="Go" label=""/>
>         <submenu name="Bookmarks" label=""/>
>         <submenu name="Profiler" label=""/>
>         <submenu name="Help" label=""/>
>         <submenu name="Preferences" label=""/>
> </menu>
> 
> Now, this looks like bad behaviour from an accessibility standpoint to me.
> 
> First of all, isn't the comment wrong?  If the intention of this
> piece of XML is to suppress shortcuts, shouldn't it just really define
> the label without using _?
> 
> Like:
> 
>         <submenu name="File" label="File"/>
> 
> What do people suggest to deal with such a thing?  I am trying
> to find my way around about how to help fix accessibility related bugs,
> so a short intro on how to resolve such issues would be great. File a bug?
> 
> Or is this actually a valid way of doing things, and the assistive
> technologies need to obtain menu labels other than calling
> Accessible_getName?