Web: unable to open / focus compact menu on macOS

[bpasero]

There seems to be no command that has a keybinding associated on macOS at least to trigger the compact menu. We should have a default keybinding that works on macOS (same as Linux and Windows too) to focus and show the main menu.

[isidorn]

Agree, this would be good to have.
@sbatten if you do not have time to look into this maybe you can provide a code pointer so we open this up for contributions?

[sbatten]

Right now there is no such command to trigger for this but it would not be hard to add. My main question to get this to work would be, what should the keybinding be for web? alt works in windows/linux but macOS uses ^F2 as a standard for focusing the menu bar and we cannot override it even in full screen.

update: we can override it, so should we? the answer is likely yes

[isidorn]

@sbatten thanks for looking into this!
It might be unexpected and weird for some users that we steal mac keybinding for focusing the top mac menu.
So currently I do not have a good suggestion. I just checked with our accessibility community to see if they have ideas since they know all the keybindings used for everything.

[isidorn]

How about F10? Is that taken?

[sbatten]

I think only when debugging, and we can bind to it safely, doesn't seem to do anything in the browser

[isidorn]

Then I say we go with F10 as suggested by the Win98 Guide!

[sbatten]

@isidorn, found out today that there is a keybinding specific to node launch configs that start debugging on f10. Should we just let this conflict and have user choose or find a new bind?

[isidorn]

@sbatten oh yeah F10 is start and stop on entry. Geeez...
I would just go with it and make sure the menu one wins. Since node-js only takes that when there is a launch configuration set.
I would maybe change the node-js one to also trigger one alt+F10
@connor4312 what do you think?

[connor4312]

I'm fine removing that as a default keybining -- js debug doesn't support it. Since no one mentioned it yet it's probably fine to have it be unbound by default and available if anyone wants it.

[isidorn]

Yeah. let's go loco and unbound by default.

[bpasero]

I am not seeing this command (using yarn web):

[sbatten]

The keybinding was present, but it wasn't shown in the command palette. It will now show in the command palette as well.