Bug: Second item in sub menu is selected first when using arrow key navigation

[andrew-james-heard]

What feature or improvement do you think would benefit Files?

file > context button or right-click > Open with (has focus) > right-cursor > submenu is displayed but nothing has focus...
but to give keyboard focus to the 1st item in the list I now have to press cursor-down (2nd item is selected), cursor-up (1st item is selected)
in other words it takes 1 less key to select the 2nd item than the 1st
I haven't discovered any other way from the keyboard to more efficiently select the 1st item in the sub-menu

Requirements

• give 1st item in the sub-menu focus when cursor-right is pressed?

Files Version

3.3.0.0

Windows Version

11 23H2

Comments

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[0x5bfa]

Thanks for the feedback. I can repro.

Recording.2024-04-08.110554.mp4

[andrew-james-heard]

Thanks for the video - exactly. I wasn't going to presume it was a bug.

[yaira2]

File Explorer has the same bug so I assume this needs to be fixed by WinUI.

[andrew-james-heard]

confirmed same with Explorer ;-(
fixed by WinUI assuming both programs use the same menu handling code (but sounds like they do)

[yaira2]

Can you open a report on the WinUI repo?

[andrew-james-heard]

WinUI? official Windows User Interface? I have no idea how sorry. Suggestion?

[yaira2]

My apologies, WinUI is the UI framework used in Files https://github.com/microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml/issues.

[andrew-james-heard]

I've created microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml#9519

[yaira2]

Thank you Andrew, once this is resolved with WinUI, we should be able to take the fix for Files.

I think we can close this issue now as it's being tracked on the WinUI repo.