Re: [orca-list] some oddities in gnome's core application menus

[Joanmarie Diggs <jdiggs igalia com>]

Hi again Kendell.

On 04/19/2015 08:28 PM, kendell clark wrote:
> hi
>  I tried to reproduce the problem, but there's not a problem to
> reproduce. Orca does exactly what it's supposed to. It doesn't
> announce the shortcuts of buttons, but if you use where am I, it
> announces them, and they always work. Strange that gnome uses dialog
> boxes instead of menus for some of their apps, but as long as they
> work ...

I didn't say that GNOME uses dialog boxes. In my message to you, I
referred to these as "the container which appears when you press F10," A
container is not necessarily a dialog box.

When I said:

   "just like happens ... in dialog boxes"

what I meant was:

   These things are not menus. In addition, in terms of keyboard
   commands, role names, etc. they happen to work a lot like dialog
   boxes.

Because if you think of them as being *like* dialog boxes, then it will
explain why things like Tab work in addition to arrows, why you have
focus rectangles instead of highlighting, and -- most importantly -- Why
you have push buttons and must press Alt+F instead of F to activate the
"New Folder" item.

Thinking of these things as "similar to, but not the same as dialog
boxes" should be less confusing to new users than telling them "this is
a menu."

--joanie