Bug 107358 - Temporarily unhide the menu bar when hidden with Alt
Summary: Temporarily unhide the menu bar when hidden with Alt
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: LibreOffice (show other bugs)
Version:
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5.4.0.0.alpha0+
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: accessibility
: 114669 (view as bug list)
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Blocks: Notebookbar-Tabbed Notebookbar-a11y
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Reported: 2017-04-22 19:16 UTC by Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired)
Modified: 2024-12-17 13:32 UTC (History)
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Description Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-04-22 19:16:51 UTC 
So the tabbed notebookbar hides the menu bar and one possible option for unhiding it temporarily is to have it respond to Alt, as it normally does when it is unhidden. This concept can be seen in Firefox.

Tomaz mentioned in bug 90195 comment 4 that he had some working code to do this, so this bug is the place to pursue this possible option of what to do with the Alt key when the menubar is hidden. The other option for the use of Alt is in bug
Comment 1 Yousuf Philips (jay) (retired) 2017-12-23 19:20:04 UTC 
*** Bug 114669 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 Volga 2017-12-24 03:16:09 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 3 Volga 2017-12-24 16:36:16 UTC 
Hello Szymon Kłos,

Is it possible to add this instruction into .uno:Menubar command?
Comment 4 Justin L 2023-06-16 15:52:52 UTC 
repro 24.2+
But that doesn't sound like a great idea, because it would basically prevent having Alt-access to the Tabs (as requested in bug 107344).
Comment 5 Uncombed5936 2024-12-17 13:32:49 UTC 
Alt unhides the menu bar in Firefox, Thunderbird, notepad++ etc when it's not combined with another key. You just press Alt and release. That doesn't interfere with Alt+key combinations. It is a very efficient and increasingly common way to reveal the menu bar, and keep it hidden to declutter when the bar is not needed.