Issue 110244

Summary:	ALT key behaviour clashes with standard linux desktop usage
Product:	General	Reporter:	dkasak <dan>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CLOSED IRREPRODUCIBLE	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	elish, issues
Version:	OOo 3.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux, all
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description dkasak 2010-03-19 06:14:23 UTC

All the window managers I've used under Linux use the ALT & drag combination key
to move windows. Further, ALT & click will raise a window.

OpenOffice presently activates a menu if the ALT key is clicked. This means if
I'm switching between windows by ALT-clicking, or ALT-click-dragging, OpenOffice
will always activate a menu, which I don't want, and I have to hit ALT or ESCAPE
to make it go away. This is absolutely infuriating. I am not the only one to
believe so:

http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-openoffice@lists.debian.org/msg00934.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=730885

This behaviour is completely incompatible with modern desktop usage. At the very
least, there should be an option to disable this ALT key behaviour. Or better
still, just remove it. The accepted way of activating menus is to use a
COMBINATION of ALT and another key to activate a window, for example ALT & F for
the 'File' menu.

Comment 1 Edwin Sharp 2014-03-03 19:36:56 UTC

Window is dragged with Alt and menu is not being activated.
AOO410m14(Build:9760)  -  Rev. 1573062
2014-03-01_04:11:01 - Rev. 1573123
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