Bug 430

Problem 1)
I open the application menu, so as to select an application. I have a list of recently opened applications at the top. Among those are Firefox, Firestarter and fotoxx. Firefox is closer to the top than the others. I press the letter F, Firefox is selected. I press F again, nothing happens, Firefox is still selected. It would make a lot more sense if I could press F several times and jump to the next application whose name starts with an 'f'.


Problem 2)
I upgraded my old Ubuntu box to Maverick and I noticed an annoying change in Kmail. I have many mailboxes: private, work, another work, Gmail etc. When I created them, I was required to name each one of them. So I put numbers in the names:

1 - Work
2 - Private
3 - Another work
4 - Gmail
etc.

Opening the File menu in Kmail, the item "Check Mail In >" used to have the letter C underlined, so I developed the habit of pressing Alt+f, c to open the "Check Mail In >" submenu with all my mail accounts. Then I would press the number of the account I wanted to check: Alt+f, c, 1 for "1 - Work". Fine. **Could be better**, but anyway...

That is a lot worse now. The new Kmail still has "Check Mail In >" but now it underlines the letter I. Which is bad, because "Import Messages..." also has the letter I underlined. So, instead of pressing <Alt+f, c>, now I am supposed to press <Alt+f, i>, and now that the letter i matches two items in that menu, that mail account submenu does not open automatically anymore. Pressing i over and over swaps the selection from "Import Messages..." to "Check Mail In >" then back to "Import Messages..." ad infinitum. None will be selected automatically, thus I have to press Enter. So my procedure now is: <Alt+f, i, i, Enter>. Annoying.

Even worse, now pressing the account number (first character of the account name) doesn't work anymore. In other words, pressing <Alt+f, i, i, Enter, 1> does not check the "1 - Work" account. I have to go another Enter... Summing up: from <Alt+f, c, 1> I had to go to <Alt+f, i, i, Enter, Enter> and that's just for the first item of the submenu. For the 5th item, it's <Alt+f, i, i, Enter, down, down, down, down, Enter>. Grrrrr...

I wish we could go back to the old arrangement. That whole process could be even better, but I guess that would require deeper changes to the current GUI.