This is after encountering that Alt+F, X no longer exits, because X is double-assigned between "Open With Explorer" and "Exit." In en-US, Alt+F, X is a very established UI pattern for pull down menu based applications.
In the File menu, there were 24 items allocating letters for shortcuts, out of a 26 character alphabet, so there's really no more room to move in terms of assigning letters.
This change moves four items into a submenu, which frees up some letters for allocation and allows those items to have hotkeys that more naturally maps to their function. It uses Alt+F, . to access the submenu, which I'm not happy about, but this results from the same issue it's trying to fix (the menu is so large that natural hotkeys can't be allocated.) In English, none of the letters of "Start" were available, so the submenu hotkey was always going to be a little contrived. Using Alt+F, . seems to work well on a keyboard and can also be consistent across languages.
This is after encountering that
Alt+F,Xno longer exits, becauseXis double-assigned between "Open With Explorer" and "Exit." Inen-US,Alt+F,Xis a very established UI pattern for pull down menu based applications.In the File menu, there were 24 items allocating letters for shortcuts, out of a 26 character alphabet, so there's really no more room to move in terms of assigning letters.
This change moves four items into a submenu, which frees up some letters for allocation and allows those items to have hotkeys that more naturally maps to their function. It uses
Alt+F,.to access the submenu, which I'm not happy about, but this results from the same issue it's trying to fix (the menu is so large that natural hotkeys can't be allocated.) In English, none of the letters of "Start" were available, so the submenu hotkey was always going to be a little contrived. UsingAlt+F,.seems to work well on a keyboard and can also be consistent across languages.