[Feature request / Bug] Keyboard Accelerators are triggered without ALT keypress.

[Hadden89]

A key press could be treated as a keyboard accelerator instead as part of the search.
An option to disable the function - which I don't use - will be nice :)

[AveYo]

You should use Show search box with Access normally and Selected by default checked.
That way, I don't find an issue with Tab

[Hadden89]

Both options were checked.
//EDIT: Actually, any key seems to trigger the issue. Look post below.

[Hadden89]

Ok, the issue is becoming awkard. How I replicated:

1. Press start menu button;
2. Menu will be opened;
3. Press one of these: a number, a letter or the Tab key without focusing the search box.
4. Some links will have an underlined letter (this should happen only if you press ALT before).
5. As my OpenShell is localized, Shutdown is Arresta.
   When I press A on keyboard, is treated as ALT+A (shutdown command).

I hope there's a settings to prevent this or to disable the ALT + function in openshell.
There's a kind of workaround, but I'd like to avoid editing INI files. (But probably I have to do it).

It seems I solved editing ExplorerL10N.ini and StartMenuL10N.ini removing any ampersand(&) and now I'm not seeing any "forced" shutdown.

While I won't ask to remove a feature (will be silly), just implement a way to ignore the & in INI files (keyboard accelerators) or to require an ALT before their activation :)

[AveYo]

First of all I do not dismiss the existence of a bug, since start items do get alt highlighted along the way.
My initial suggestion is to work around that, yet you do exactly the opposite trying to "mitigate it".
Select by default makes the search box get the input focus so any key, even Tab press is going there and not at the start menu items!
Want to launch an item instead of search? - Just press Alt+Key or navigate with ArrowUP or ArrowDOWN !
It's a no-brainer, who would not want that behavior?!

Granted, that's how OpenShell works for me. Worth a shot to try my shared optimized profile.

[Hadden89]

@AveYo Well, now it works as (I) expected, is what counts. And after all I followed the suggestion ^^
I left the replication procedure just in case someone else see a similar issue.
Actually I tried various combination but still had the nasty alt highlighting - 3 shutdown within 5 minutes, during the test - but for what I know could be also an awkard w10 bug.
Obviously, I'll check your optimized profile too. OpenShell is built around optimization, after all :P

[Sam-Hall]

I've been using Classic Shell for years and now Open Shell, always with the "Select by default" option. I want to confirm that even with this option, sometimes accelerators still get triggered. Maybe the search box gets focus slightly after accelerator events start listening or maybe there's a race condition at play. Either way, an option to disable the accelerators entirely or require Alt to be pressed in conjunction would be much appreciated. I don't think I've ever used the accelerators on purpose, but they have triggered on accident from time to time.