Tomboy Hotkey Handling

Hello,

I am used to use the keyboard with shortcuts whenever possible, so that my hands can stay on the keyboard and need not jumping between keyboard and mouse all the time.
When I am editing a note and want to apply special formatting, I press <alt-T>, so the "Text" button in the toolbar pops up a menu showing me special formatting options. However, after having selected an option, I press enter and the the "text" button keeps focused.

How do I get back to my textfield area to continue editing?? The arrow keys highlight toolbar buttons in some irritating unpredictable order. The ESC key CLOSES the window - this is REALLY REALLY annoying! Ok TAB helps but that is not obvious.

In other applications, normally the Escape key cancels the focus from the menu bar. The toolbar here acts as a menu bar, so I think this should be the same.
Additionally, I think the toolbar should not take focus at all.
At least, I would like to have an option so that Escape does not close the window anymore.

Is there any chance to get this?
Thanks
Gerhard