Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 100745
Several entries in a menu are assigned the same key
Last modified: 2017-05-20 08:17:41 UTC
There is a number of reports about more than one entry in a menu being assigned the same key. For example, in Impress, in the "Insert" menu both "dUplicate" and "pictUre" use 'u' as key -- with the consequence that if you actually hit 'u', nothing happens. I understand the desire to keep the UI consistent across applications but it is disappointing that in the four years since this has first been reported nothing has happened. This even more so because any change isn't even incompatible to existing versions: the key simply does nothing right now, so any change can only make it better by breaking the tie. Ideally, of course, the framework would just disallow creating menus in which the same key is assigned to more than one entry, or where it takes the first entry to be assigned to a key. Wolfgang
dtardon->bangerth: If there are more entries with the same mnemonic key in a menu, the application should cycle through them on repeated presses of the key (I actually haven't found that described in any spec, but it's there in the code, so there is a strong evidence it's intended behaviour.) If that doesn't work for you (it works for me on Fedora Linux, both with gen and gtk VCL plugin), report a bug on it.
I suppose that might work, but it sort of defeats the purpose of a keyboard *short cut* if I have to press the same key several times, and then hit the enter key. It's also something I didn't know, and I suppose many others neither. W.
Duplicate Slide = D Picture = u Rev. 1479897 Win 7