On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 07:22, Calum Benson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 00:00, Ettore Perazzoli wrote: > > > This is one of my pet peeves actually, I *hate* that when you click on > > the toolbar it gets the keyboard focus. You never want that; it's > > annoying e.g. if you want to cut / paste some text, and you have to use > > the mouse to bring the focus back where you want it. > (...) > It's debatable whether that applies here, though, since both halves of > the attachment button are (or should be) futher manipulable from the > keyboard once they have focus. In fact you should probably really even > be able to use Ctrl-C on a focused attachment button to copy the > attachment (followed by Ctrl-V to paste it into a file manager window), > as an accesible alternative to dragging and dropping it.
Yeah that's a good point... > > Hmm maybe this would be a better fix, but I am not sure. The user still > > expects the vertical cursor keys to move the focus around... > > True, I guess if you had multiple attachments, users might expect > vertical arrow keys to move focus to move between them rather than just > scrolling the page. Having said that, we've been pretty careful since > the GNOME 2.0 days only to document [Shift-]Tab as the means of moving > focus *between* controls (even though arrow keys still kind of work in > most places), and arrow keys for moving focus *within* controls: see > http://www.gnome.org/learn/access-guide/2.2/keynav-1.html#keynav-2. OK, I think you convinced me. :-) -- Ettore Perazzoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
