question on menu in plasma-netbook

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Mon Aug 30 04:58:47 BST 2010


On Sunday, August 29, 2010 09:08:19 pm Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> 2010/8/27 Aurélien Gâteau <aurelien.gateau at canonical.com>
> 
> > On 27/08/2010 04:06, Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> > > Quick question for the group.  Runing plasma-netbook (and it is finally
> > > stable for me yay) but the question comes form the menu that is located
> > 
> > next
> > 
> > > to the Search and launch section of the task bar.  While I think it is
> > 
> > nice
> > 
> > > being there I am finding it a bit frustrating that on certain
> > 
> > applications I
> > 
> > > can no longer use the keyboard with alt to open up text files.  Example:
> >  In
> >  
> > > Kate I can no longer do alt + f + q to quit or any of the other
> > > combinations.  I need to use the ctrl q shortcut to quit, alt + f + o
> > 
> > does
> > 
> > > not open the window to open a file, I need to use ctrl+O.
> > > 
> > > While it isnt a big deal, and will just take some getting used to, I am
> > > wondering why the change?  If anyone knows?
> > 
> > The new menubar uses dbusmenu-qt. Support for mnemonics (alt+f) has been
> > implemented recently. You need at least these versions:
> > 
> > - libqtgui4: 4.7.0~beta2-0ubuntu6
> > - libdbusmenu-qt2: 0.6.0-0ubuntu1
> > - plasma-widget-menubar: 0.1.11-0ubuntu1
> > 
> > I haven't tried it on netbook edition but I think it should work there
> > as well.

> Good evening,
> As of an update tonight (9pm EST) with a completely updated Maverick system
> I am still having problems iwth the mnemonics
> 
> According to dkpkg -l I have:
> libqtgu4 4:4.7.0-beta2-0ubuntu8
> libdusmenu-qt2 0.6.0-0ubuntu1
> plasma-widget-menubar: 0.1.11-0ubuntu1
> 
> Hope that helps but still no luck
> 
> JJ

Please file a bug on plasma-widget-menubar and make sure agateau and I are 
subscribed to it.

Scott K



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