Re: Toolbar keyboard navigation

[Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>]

> Hi Soeren,
> 
> On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 14:29, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> >         - F10 cycles focus between all menubars and toolbars in a
> >           window
> 
> 	Nice - my only concern is that this focus cycling chain and all the
> internals needed to support adding new items be public - so that
> whomever comes up with the next crazy thing that needs to be in that
> chain has an easy life [custom docks, etc.]

Thanks Soeren:

As Calum said, my preference is for the toolbar to be in the main focus
chain.  I think that using arrow keys to navigate within the toobar
(rather than putting every toolbar item in the focus chain) makes the
most sense, and maps well onto other 'compound' widgets in terms of
keynav.

If we go this route, apps with toolbars will have one more item in the
tab-focus chain, and F10 would just cycle between menus (if there's more
than one menu, for instance the foobar).

regards,

Bill



> 
> 	Great work anyhow,
> 
> 	Regards,
> 
> 		Michael.
> 
> -- 
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> 
> 
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> 
> Message: 12
> Subject: Re: Nautilus/Medusa search index enhancements
> From: Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>
> To: "Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm usm edu ec>
> Cc: sinzui cox net, desktop-devel-list <desktop-devel-list gnome org>
> Organization: Ximian.
> Date: 19 Feb 2003 12:54:45 +0000
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 20:42, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
> > WHAT?  Medusa isn't a search daemon anymore?  Then the whole idea I had
> > crumbles to pieces!
> 
> 	Did you consider the space implications of indexing a potentially
> limitless 'net space' on a very finite local hard-disk - and the
> scalability issues of having every single client re-indexing the whole
> network and/or the security implications of the IPC necessary to do
> intra-machine authentication / index querying ? and the scale of the
> work to make that happen ?
> 
> 	I suspect that the (sensible) limitation of making this per-user, in
> order to get _something_ that works nicely, soon, out there is likely to
> result in a working deployed tool that can be used by real users for a
> very useful sub-set of your big vision. It's better to build on
> something that works, and is deployed rather than going on indefinately
> having grand architectural pipe-dreams.
> 
> 	FWIW,
> 
> 		Michael.
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Bill Haneman <bill haneman sun com>