Application menus aren't keyboard accessible on Windows

[patrickhlauke]

At least on Windows, the menus don't behave like native menus (expected: ALT sets focus to the first menu, cursor keys can then be used to go from menu to menu, down to open the menus, etc). There doesn't seem to be a way to use the menus with the keyboard at the moment.

[patrickhlauke]

xref: electron/electron#2504

[ahicks92]

I was following up to see if any progress had been made on the Electron side of this and found this issue through the backref from the aforementioned, and it's worth pointing out that this has been an issue since 2015. Based on some of the comments over there it's maybe very hard to fix, but I feel like things are more political than anything and that it boils down to enough critical stakeholders needing this fixed to get someone with the knowledge to actually fix it. Figured I'd chime in because the age of their issue is a detail that's not immediately obvious.

[patrickhlauke]

Noting that on macOS at least, menus do work (as electron there hooks into the proper OS stuff for menus - doing CTRL+F2 goes to the standard menu bar etc). so our current known issue is only for Windows.

[patrickhlauke]

this looks promising electron/electron#15302

[patrickhlauke]

Keyboard access to menu now works in Windows (pressing ALT correctly moves to the menu), but now macOS doesn't seem to work (CTRL+Fn+F2 seems to have no effect anymore, where before it did work)

[ferllings]

I'll do some tests on MacOS