Re: Menu blinking animation

[John Cupitt <jcupitt gmail com>]

On 06 Oct 2004 16:21:05 -0400, Jonathan Blandford <jrb redhat com> wrote:
> "Murray Cumming" <murrayc murrayc com> writes:
> > Will this also show and flash the menu item when I use the keyboard
> > shortcut? That's what the Mac does, or used to do. I found that it really
> > helped me to remember keyboard shortcuts, and to know that the action had
> > actually happened.
> 
> Neat.  I'd never seen that before.  This won't do that -- just blink
> menu items when you activate them the old fashioned way.  Do you really
> need help learning which menus a keyboard shortcut comes from, though?
> It seems to me like you'd need the reverse...

OS X doesn't pop open the menu containing the accelerator, it just
flashes the top level menu bar item. It's useful feedback that your
accelerator has happened.