no mnemonics in menus (File, Edit, ...)

[kolAflash]

My system:
Linux
Desktop: KDE 4.14.6

In the menus there are any mnemonics shown at all!
(the menu buttons themselves show mnemonics when pressing ALT)
E.g. in File menu:

New Window
New File
Open File
...

don't show any mnemonics. Also when pressing "ALT" while menu is opened.
Nevertheless, mnemonics seem to be there (but not shown). If I press "n" while in File menu (found out by guessing) Atom opens a new file.

[kolAflash]

Guess this is not just an enhancement but a bug! Because on Windows there are mnemonics in the menus.

Additionally tested this on Kubuntu 14.04. It also has that bug!

Nevertheless, on Ubuntu 14.04 with Unity the mnemonics in the menu are displayed correctly. Probably, because the menu is rendered by Unity in the Unity-Systembar (or also the window titlebar).
After switching off the menu rendering by Unity (apt-get remove indicator-appmenu) the bug also appears in Unity... :-/

Maybe this is related:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-bugs/FgE4vTD8JbM

[kolAflash]

Anyone else having this issue?

I don't think it's hard to find the reason for this if you have some knowledge of the source (which I unfortunately don't have).

[dead-claudia]

I don't have the issue. I'm running Ubuntu GNOME 14.04, 64-bit.

[kolAflash]

This is what it looks like for me on Ubuntu GNOME 15.10.

Pressing ALT to show mnemonics. Now Atom shows a mnemonic for each menu.

Pressing ALT-F to open the File menu. But there are no more mnemonics. Either for the different menus (File, Edit, View, ...) nor for the entries in the menus ("New Window", "New File", "Open File", ...).

Pressing just ALT on Windows (8.1) looks the same.

But pressing ALT-F on Windows also gives mnemonics in the menus.

[dead-claudia]

I can confirm on Ubuntu 15.10 as well. It's inconvenient on rare occasion,
but in practice I hardly notice. Low priority for me to want fixed.

On Tue, Feb 23, 2016, 02:10 kolAflash notifications@github.com wrote:

This is what it looks like for me on Ubuntu GNOME 15.10.

Pressing ALT to show mnemonics. Now Atom shows a mnemonic for each menu.
[image: alt-pressed]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/3355089/13243948/e5222078-da02-11e5-9e57-40d9629a59ff.png

Pressing ALT-F to open the File menu. But there are no more mnemonics.
Either for the different menus (File, Edit, View, ...) nor for the entries
in the menus ("New Window", "New File", "Open File", ...).
[image: menu-opened]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/3355089/13243950/e897cca8-da02-11e5-9243-c4ccca90bd25.png

Pressing just ALT on Windows (8.1) looks the same.
[image: alt-pressed_win]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/3355089/13244206/a5f8f1c2-da04-11e5-8f5f-cb5aa51c8cae.png

But pressing ALT-F on Windows also gives mnemonics in the menus.
[image: menu-opened_win]
https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/3355089/13244217/b56d7ad8-da04-11e5-9ac9-f9649c0c2fa1.png

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[rivis]

I have the same issue.

Atom: 1.12.9
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 8.6 (jessie)
Desktop: Xfce4 4.10

This issue was the largest blocker for me to move to Atom from other editors because I usually use the menu by mnemonic key strokes to run commands which don't have key-bindings or I can't remember key-bindings of.

Until the issue is fixed, I wrote a script in $HOME/.atom/init.js to show mnemonics in menu labels.

(() => {
    let appendMnemonic = (menuList) => {
        menuList.forEach((menu) => {
            if (menu.label) {
                let amp = menu.label.indexOf('&');
                if (amp >= 0) {
                    let mnemonic = menu.label.charAt(amp + 1).toUpperCase();
                    menu.label = `${menu.label}  (${mnemonic})`;
                }
            }
            if (menu.submenu) {
                appendMnemonic(menu.submenu);
            }
        })
    }
    appendMnemonic(atom.menu.template);
    atom.menu.update();
})();

[jsolisu]

I don´t have the issue on Windows 10.

[50Wliu]

I don´t have the issue on Windows 10.

Yep, because this is a Linux-only bug.

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[kolAflash]

Bug is still existing in 1.23.3 without any changes to what I previously reported.

[daviwil]

Looks like this has been fixed by Electron 3 based on a quick check using my Manjaro Linux machine! Keep an eye on this PR for when the Electron 3 upgrade is complete: #18603

[50Wliu]

New Electron 3 PR is #18916.

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