the Terminal's system menu (alt+space) doesn't have keyboard accelerators
#15,726 opened on Jul 19, 2023
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Description
Windows Terminal version
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Steps to reproduce
run it
Expected Behavior
I intentionally categorize this as a bug, not as a feature request. Windows has had comprehensive keyboard navigation for more than two decades. I do not know what happened, but recently everything is gone. Open a context menu, no shortcuts. They take longer to appear, do fancy animations or whatever, but they are unusable without the mouse. Same deal with this disaster here. Try to use it without a mouse. Try to use all of it without a mouse and you will understand.
conhost: alt-space, Properties and P is underlined. It has a shortcut.
wt: alt-space, there is a Settings entry, but no shortcut. Why.
conhost: ctrl-tab, cycle through various settings tabs, as fast as the keyboard can send keypresses. wt: we use tab. It changes the focus of the item selected. Tab to go down to the list of categories. Categories do not change: one must press return. Okay. Startup, press down, press enter, see "Interaction" tab. Press down, press enter, see "Appearance" tab. ... Where did the focus just go? Oh look, at the bottom of the window a new button has appeared. Now you have to hold up to get focus back where it should have been. Okay. Press enter on "Color schemes". Now focus has gone in the tab contents? Why? Escape does not go up the hierarchy. Did 4 shift-tab to get back at the list. 'Actions'. Moving focus up-down shows the pencil button, but there is no way to actually activate it. You have to use the mouse button. I mashed my entire keyboard. Nothing at all happened. The only two keys that do something are 'up' and 'down'. No idea why we must, but we click the mouse. It's like I'm playing diablo all over again.
conhost: alt-space, p, ctrl-tab (as needed), press a letter/digit or alt+letter/digit and you've accessed or changed any available setting immediately. Any configuration option available to the user is 4(min) 8(max) keypresses away.
I'm not gonna sugarcoat it. Your efforts and the sheer amount of work you have put are both astounding But you are focusing so hard on features and fanciness that you've completely ignored usability Keyboard navigation is not something you can tack-on after the fact. Yes, I see the Actions list. That, is not keyboard navigation. Thank you for your time.
Actual Behavior
Impossible to use without a mouse.