Okay, try this...

1) CTRL-F2 (yes, yes, bear with me)
2) Type the first letter of the menu item you want*
3) Down arrow
4) Repeat step 2
5) Repeat 2-3 until you drill down to the desired command and hit "enter"

* If by chance there are two menu items with the same first letter, it's sufficient to type the first and second letter.

How is this slower if not more efficient than ALT-whatever?

Only happy to help.

OOOPS! My reply was meant for the GP and not parent poster...ehmmm, yeh.

Insomma, not for Dupple but for Procasinator.

System Prefs > Mouse & Keyboard > Keyboard shortcuts*.

A quick look tells me that CTRL-F2 puts focus on the menubar, CTRL-F3 places focus on the Dock, etc etc. OSX has had this since (someone correct if i'm wrong) since at least 10.2 .

So, that's about enough of this "can't navigate in OSX without the mouse" propaganda. [/wishful thinking]

* Apologies if the wording isn't exact as i'm translating from the italian.

Think ATM/Cashpoint/Bancomat. Whether they're on-screen or real metal buttons, they're always there.

All appliances have an OK button. Call it an ON switch, call it what you will but there is a Big Obvious OK button (or that silly "Apply" button*) that begs "press me to do what i'm supposed to do". And it's always somewhere visible, usually right there on its face. Not in the other room hiding. Not in some other dimension waiting to be invoked by a ouija board.

Being how software that follows a windowed GUI model has no other side than its face (even when it's pretending to be 3D), the "press to continue" button always has to be visible.

Anything less, documented in the FM or not, is a secret handshake. And not spoiled.

As far as dragging a window without finding its title bar, that is an optional interaction. The "chrome" (i believe that's the term) is where all primary interaction with the window container happens. The contents of the window is where data interaction happens. I want to push pixels, i click and drag and dance inside a window; i want to move/resize said window to different coordinates, i drag its chrome around.

*"Apply" (imho) has always seemed a redundant way of being redundant. And repetitively and unnecessarily repetitive.

I'm sorry but on what planet is knowing a "secret handshake" to see a UI element you should never have to search for to begin with being spoiled?

What? WHAT??? Where on earth did you see that? I just did a logout to see if this was true, maybe never noticing a hint button when i log on. Silly me. I fell for it too. "Hint button", indeed.

There's no, i repeat, no "hint button" on the OSX login screen, Leopard or otherwise.