Hotkey to toggle Menubar please!

[hellen_dorandt89]

Hello, just another very happy user of the new everything alpha (1.5).
I really like the minimal approach to UI and the new excellent abity to hide the menubar.
Can we just get a hotkey to toggle menubar visibility? please? thank you :]

[NotNull]

Support++ (I have the menu hidden too)

You can attach a keyboard shortcut to most menu-entries (Menu:Tools > Options > Keyboard), but toggling the menu isn't one of them.
Would be nice if that got added.


Workaround for now:
- Right-click the title bar and select View > Menu (bet you knew this already)
- Press 'ALT + SPACE' , V, 'ENTER' (assuming English menu items; V = View)

[hellen_dorandt89]

Hey Thank you for the prompt reply. I will use your suggestion for now then. Thanks!

[void]

I will add a keyboard shortcut to toggle the menubar in the next alpha update.

Thank you for your suggestion.

[hellen_dorandt89]

This is wonderfull news. Looking forward to it.
Thank you for all the excellent work you put into this excellent software!

[void]

Everything 1.5.0.1306 adds a command to toggle the menubar.

To set a keyboard shortcut to toggle the menubar:

• In Everything, from the Tools menu, click Options.
• Click the Keyboard tab on the left.
• To the right of Show commands containing, type in: menu
• Select View | Menu.
• Click Edit....
• Press your new keyboard shortcut and click OK.
• Click OK.

[hellen_dorandt89]

Hey that is great news! Cant wait to get home and to try this! Thanks so much for being so quick to implement this!

[raccoon]

I'm pondering hiding the menu bar myself as an experiment, but. When Firefox eliminated the menu bar, they made it so pressing the Alt key would auto-show it and activate the menu accelerators. I have a couple other programs that behave this way too. Right now, hiding the menu bar in Everything disables menu accelerators, and doesn't auto-show the menu bar. I do need the menu accelerators to work when pressing Alt+V or Alt+S for instance.

Any chance we could add this behavior? Either as a hidden option and/or the default behavior?

(It's possible the OP wouldn't need a hotkey to toggle the menubar if this were the behavior.)

[NotNull]

I would like that too (even suggested exactly the same thing long time ago).

Firefox (and Notepad++ e.a.) have a dual mode:
- Pressing 'ALT +F' opens the previously hidden menu and focuses the 'File' entry (English localization) and expands it.
- Pressing 'ALT' focuses the first menu entry. Pressing for example a 'T' focuses the Tools menu and expands it.

Either one would work (for me)



Another option would be to focus the menu bar after un-hiding it, but that goes against the original hide/unhide meaning imo.
Luckily all menu entries are still accessible through hotkeys, like CTRL+P to access the options.

[raccoon]

mIRC is another one that lets you hide the menu bar. And auto-showing + accelerators when pressing Alt is the only behavior it supports.

[void]

I have put on my TODO list: ALT = show menu.

Thank you for the suggestion.

[NotNull]

mIRC is another one that lets you hide the menu bar. And auto-showing + accelerators when pressing Alt is the only behavior it supports.

... beside right-clicking the title bar (like Everything).

[void]

Everything 1.5.0.1310a improves the menu bar.

The menu bar will now be shown when the ALT key is pressed.

[NotNull]

Very nice!!
Even the hotkey I configured for View => Menu (v1310: Menu Bar; better!) was removed automatically.

Big improvement (for me). Thanks!