Anna Marie Dirks wrote:
Hello, Yuedong, Sun Hackers, and Evolution team:
Thanks for bringing this issue up for discussio.
On Wed, 2003-09-10 at 03:23, Yuedong Du wrote:
Current Behaviour: when you navigate through folder list using up/down
arrow, and
then you stop on an item, focus will switch to the pane on right. If
we need to navigate
to next folder, we need to tab through the panes and got focus back
on the folder list.
If we navigate speed is fast enough, focus will not switch other pane.
But it will not help
much for disability. We cannot require the disabilities to navigate
the folder list quickly.
How do a blind, for example, navigate through the folder list with
AT-App? If he is using
gnopernicus. Before he find what folders in the folder list are, the
focus switch maybe
already made he feel frustrated.
So, let me see if I understand. Your concern is that switching focus
away from the folder list after a folder has been selected (current
behavior) can be frustrating to users because:
a. it requires them to press the <tab> key several times to get back to
the folder list, and
b. it makes them feel like they are not in control of Evolution (since
focus changed without their explicit request)
Are those your main concerns? Am I missing anything?
Yeah, this is exactly what I mean.
So we suggested focus should not change when keyboard navigate to a
folder. Mouse click
on a folder may cause focus change to the right pane, as outlook does.
In this case, what do you see as being the advantage of switching the
focus to the right pane (after a folder is selected with the mouse)? If
your proposed changes are made, then focus will be in different places
post-selecting a folder, depending on how you selected the folder. Is
this (apparent inconsistency in behaviors) useful?
We trying to minimize the side effect of modification. For users who
already
familiar with mouse click and focus switch, he can just keep this
habit. As ettore
said in another mail, this number of kind user maybe vast. So we only
affect users
who just use keyboard to navigate through folder list.
Thank you in advance for helping me to understand your thoughts and
concerns about this.
best,
Anna
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