[1] To my knowledge, pressing Enter in a button is not supposed to activate that button in all look and feels. To my knowledge, in certain LAFs, you need to press the space bar.
[2] We do not test XXE against all look and feels and don't intend to do that in the future. XXE is tested with: * The Windows LAF on Windows * The Mac LAF on Mac * The Metal LAF on Linux (starting from V3, the Metal LAF is the default LAF of XXE/Java 1.5/Linux, even if you use the Gnome desktop. This was not the case with V2.x.) >From today, other combinations of LAF/OS are officially *not supported*. We'll make this statement clear on our Web site. The LAF combobox found in Options|Options, General tab has just 3 purposes: [a] Switch to the Metal LAF on Windows, in case you find the Metal Ocean LAF of Java 1.5 nicer than the Windows LAF. [b] Switch to the plain Metal LAF on Linux/Java 1.4 in case you find the Metal/Kunststoff LAF too ``heavy'' for your eyes. [c] Help the user to quickly decide *not* to use ugly LAFs such as emulated GTK+ and CDE/Motif. (No offense intended: native GTK+ and native CDE/Motif LAFs are nice to use and nice to look at.) Yves Forkl wrote: > Depending on the Look&Feel I choose, I face the problems described > below. Has anybody a solution to one of them or suggestions for a > workaround to share? All in all, I tend to follow Husseins's > suggestion to use Metal Look&Feel as that seems to be the lesser > evil. > > - Metal Look&Feel, not in default (GTK+) or CDE/Motif Look&Feel: > > - In Attribute form of Attributes tool, Enter does not open the > "list value" button when it has the focus (after using tab to move > there) - you need to leave the keyboard and click on it; but > automatic autocompletion (when turned on) allows to select a value. > > But this is OK, Metal Look&Feel does even a better job here by > providing instant autocompletion. > > - In Attribute form of Attributes tool, Enter does not open the "URL > chooser" when it has the focus. > > This is rather inconvenient: I have to leave the keyboard here and > use the mouse to open the URL chooser. > > - Metal Look&Feel or CDE/Motif Look&Feel, not in default (GTK+) Look&Feel: > > - In Attribute table of Attributes tool, Enter does not open the > value field for editing when it has the focus (after using tab to > move there), but rather acts like tab - you need to leave the > keyboard and click inside the value field. > > IMHO not a big problem, as the Attribute table editor is mainly > intended for mouse-based access. > > - default (GTK+) Look&Feel, not with Metal or CDE/Motif Look&Feel: > > - In Attribute table editor, the value of an attribute is unreadable > only when it is currently being edited (font too large?). > > - By default, the document window is too tall, so you must manually > shrink it by dragging down the outer border of its title bar in > order to see and reach the window's bottom; this is probably > related to the document tabs that are displayed at the bottom. > > (Was already reported as a bug on the xmleditor-support list.) > > - Ugly and confusing icon separators in the toolbar: vertical line > ends in the middle of the field. > > (XXE's GUI using GTK was already reported as being ugly on the > xmleditor-support list. :-))
