Re: GTK+ accessibility

[Bryan Gardiner <bog khumba net>]

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:12:22 +0100
Emmanuele Bassi <ebassi gmail com> wrote:

> Hi;
>
> you probably want to contact the gnome-accessibility team, on
> gnome-accessibility-list gnome org 
>
> On 15 July 2015 at 12:55, Miroslav Rajcic <miroslav rajcic inet hr> wrote:
>
> > I've checked other programs and it seems that:
> > 1. Windows native programs (see Notepad for example) obey this behavior,
> > pressing Alt does select menu bar item
> > 2. created basic GTK program with menu bar, this behavior is not obeyed (see
> > test source code below)
> >     I've played with different GTK settings like "gtk-auto-mnemonics" and
> > "gtk-enable-mnemonics", but no help.
>
> These are for mnemonics to appear, when you press Alt or at all,
> respectively. The settings do not control focus.
>
> > My question:
> > - am I missing some setting here ?
> > - is this unsupported?
>
> This is largely something that only Windows does — I cannot reproduce
> it on my Linux machine with any toolkit (GTK2, GTK3, Qt, or the ad hoc
> toolkits used by Firefox and LibreOffice).

Just a note, the default Qt widget style on Linux does have this behaviour
(and so does Firefox *if* the menu bar is hidden by default).

Cheers,
Bryan