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Windows: Menu bar does not behave like a native menu bar #4330

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bpasero opened this issue Feb 2, 2016 · 3 comments
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Windows: Menu bar does not behave like a native menu bar #4330

bpasero opened this issue Feb 2, 2016 · 3 comments

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bpasero commented Feb 2, 2016

This is probably a known issue but here are some things that do not work with the custom menu bar Electron provides on Windows:

  • accessibility is bad for screen readers, as the top level menu item is not read
  • you cannot use the arrow left and right keys to navigate between top level entries
  • the keybinding is being read as well as the label to screen readers, which is not what happens for native menus

There are probably more issues. I wonder how much work it would be to enable the native Windows menu in Electron.

@felixrieseberg fyi, might be another topic for a hackathon :)

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...trip to Zurich :shipit: ?

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bpasero commented Feb 3, 2016

;)

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zcbenz commented Feb 15, 2016

I'm merging this to #2504.

We were using native menu a few years ago, but at some time Chrome decided to use custom drawn menu and we had to switch to current implementation.

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