Re: panel prelight on focus

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Havoc Pennington wrote:

> I had the same basic ideas - if you guys want to make a recommendation
> on which one you like, and which keys they should be by default, 
> then that would be cool.

Well, personally I kind of like the simplicity of just having a separate
keybinding for cycling through panels.  The downside is that it's one
more completely new keybinding to remember (I think we've probably run
out of available-but-sensible modifiers on the Tab key), whereas with
the other approach there's a chance we could pick a more guessable
keybinding, like Ctrl+F10 (similar to other menu shortcuts) or Alt+Esc
(which Windoze users will be familiar with).

I don't know what the accessibility guys' views on this would be,
though.

> We then need a Sawfish bug for this

We already have one, actually, it just doesn't specify the actual
required keynav beaviour:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70071

A related issue is being able to give focus to the desktop using the
keyboard (not sure if there's an open bug against that or not)-- should
that be included in the panel-cycling order, or be yet another new
keybinding?  (IIRC Windoze does the former.)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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