Issue 100745

Summary: Several entries in a menu are assigned the same key
Product: General Reporter: bangerth <bangerth>
Component: uiAssignee: AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: Trivial    
Priority: P3 CC: arielch, elish, issues
Version: OOo 3.0.1   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: All   
Issue Type: DEFECT Latest Confirmation in: 4.0.0
Developer Difficulty: ---
Issue Depends on:    
Issue Blocks: 42780, 62846, 63771, 72271, 76920, 77324, 92862, 87276    

Description bangerth 2009-04-01 13:51:43 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
Comment 1 dtardon 2009-04-03 09:07:40 UTC 
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.
Comment 2 bangerth 2009-04-03 09:18:32 UTC 
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.
Comment 3 Edwin Sharp 2013-05-15 16:28:30 UTC 
Duplicate Slide = D
Picture = u

Rev. 1479897 Win 7