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eog package

can not access File menu with Alt-F key combo

Bug #251917 reported by Tormod Volden on 2008-07-25

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Eye of GNOME	Fix Released	Low	gnome-bugs #548079
	eog (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Low	Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

Binary package hint: eog

Steps to reproduce: Start eog and press Alt-F (in English the _File menu has an underscore under the F in File.)
Expected: The File menu should unfold.
Happens: Nothing. Actually if you have an image opened, and it has been zoomed in or out, it will zoom to fit. So it seems the _View -> Zoom to _fit is activated instead.

Workaround: Press Alt-E to unfold the _Edit menu, then the left arrow key.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Jul 25 19:17:14 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/eog
Package: eog 2.22.2-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: eog
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic i686

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lp:ubuntu/lucid/eog

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Tormod Volden (tormodvolden) wrote on 2008-07-25:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (21.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (707 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote on 2008-07-25:

Thank you for your bug report. I can confirm this. The Alt key correctly opens all of the other menus, except for the _File menu (for example, Alt+E correctly opens _Edit)

Changed in eog:
status:	New → Confirmed

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Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) wrote on 2008-08-16:

This is still an issue in Intrepid. (eog 2.23.6-0ubuntu1)

Changed in eog:
importance:	Undecided → Low

Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) on 2008-08-17

Changed in eog:
assignee:	nobody → desktop-bugs
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-08-17

Changed in eog:
status:	Unknown → New

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2008-08-17

Changed in eog:
status:	New → Fix Released

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Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) wrote on 2008-08-18:

From upstream:

"This was the ScrollView taking over the keypress. Should be fixed now.

2008-08-17 Felix Riemann <>

        * src/eog-scroll-view.c: (display_key_press_event): Don't let
        EogScrollView handle Alt+Key combos to avoid interferences with
        the menubar shortcuts. Fixes bug #548079.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be
available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report."

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-08-18:

the bug has been fixed upstream now

Changed in eog:
status:	Triaged → Fix Committed

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote on 2008-08-20:

This bug was fixed in the package eog - 2.23.90-0ubuntu1

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eog (2.23.90-0ubuntu1) intrepid; urgency=low

  * New upstream release (LP: #259429)
    Misc improvements/fixes:
    - Build system improvements (Felix Riemann, Paul, Tom Parker)
    Bug fixes:
    - #547302, eog trunk needs gtk >= 2.13.1 not 2.11.6 (Tom Parker)
    - #547566, eog crashed with SIGSEGV in eog_thumbnail_load()
     (Felix Riemann) (LP: #256469)
    - #548079, can not access File menu with Alt-F key combo
      (Felix Riemann) (LP: #251917)
    - #548202, in the plugins, move $(EOG_LIBS) from libwhatever_la_LDFLAGS
      to libwhatever_la_LIBADD (Paul)

-- Pedro Fragoso <email address hidden> Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:01:17 +0100

Changed in eog:
status:	Fix Committed → Fix Released

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2010-09-16

Changed in eog:
importance:	Unknown → Low

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Alan Horkan (horkana) wrote on 2011-05-16:

They broke it again. Ubuntu 11.04
EOG version 2.32.1 junks the file menu entirely. (Quite probably from a misreading of an old Gnome Guideline that explains how task based applications that do not work with files do not need to have a file menu, but Images are files.)

It is a less memorable keybinding.
This hurts consistency.