Re: Keyboard usage on some Gnome windows not working

[Kalle Vahlman <kalle vahlman gmail com>]

2005/10/10, Alan <alan ufies org>:
> On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 03:28:25PM +0200, Frank Niedermann wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > It is possible to close some Gnome windows with the escape key (example:
> > System / Preferences / Keyboard shortcuts) but it is not possible with
> > some other windows (example: System / Preferences / Keyboard).
> >
> > Also the return key does not always belong to the OK button if there is
> > one (example: System / Administration / Users and Groups).
> >
> > I don't know how this can be fixed but maybe it's worth to think about
> > for the next release(s)?
>
> On a related note, I've seen some issues with the accel key for dialogs
> ie: in a save dialog with 's' underlined in the word "save" should mean
> you can hit 's' and the dialog would act as if you'd hit the save button
> with mouse or tabbed to it and hit return or spacebar... anyway, it
> doesn't work.  Not sure if it doesn't work ever, or just in most apps.

Depending on a dialog, there might be some other widgets that need the
keyboard focus, so binding just "s" to save button would make it
tricky to save files with "s" in their name... That's why they need
the alt modifier to be pressed.

> For me saving an unsaved doc in gedit shows this.

And pressing alt-s indeed activates the save button, ditto for
epiphany and the open dialog.

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