Re: [Evolution-hackers] [UI] attachment dropdown focus hijacking (mouse)

[Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>]

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.  :-)

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Ettore Perazzoli <ettore ximian com>