On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Jud Craft <[email protected]> wrote: > On another note related to the widget-group problem, consider GEdit > and Rhythmbox, specifically their toolbars, and arrow key navigation > of a toolbar. > > > > In GEdit, I can enter the toolbar using tab and ctrl-tab. I can only > exit it using tab (ctrl-tab, which should get into anything, gets > stuck in it for some reason...). I can also use the arrow keys, which > is pretty cool, but if you're moving through fields with ctrl-tab, I > don't want to change over to a new shortcut. > > In Rhythmbox, I can enter the toolbar using tab. But, you can't > navigate it with either tab or ctrl-tab! You have to use the darn > arrow keys only!
To clear up some of the confusion here, the difference is not how you can _enter_ the toolbar, it is how you can leave the widget before it. Gedits content pane needs to accept tab as input, thus you are required to use Ctrl-tab to leave it. In rhythmbox, regular tab works since it doesn't have to accept tab as input. [...] > The only thing more frustration than multiple options for keyboard > navigation, are multiple options that only work at certain times. > It's frustrating enough that Tab has text-entry conflicts. Unless you invent a keyboard that has reserved keys for focus navigation, there will always be conflicts. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
