Re: [Evolution-hackers] Keyboard navigation broken

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

use Ctrl-Tab, it's not shift-tab.

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 18:42 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> Keyboard navigation does not seem to work right.
> 
> I start in the search bar.  The "Tab" key cycles through interface
> widgets "clockwise" as expected.  However, shift-tab does not go
> backwards.  Nor does anything else I tried.  AFAICT, if you overshoot
> the widget you're going for, you have to go all the way around to try
> again.
> 
> Also, when the select list in the search bar is focused, the down and up
> arrows do not cycle through the options.  They move the focus to the
> object "above" and "below" - in this case the last button on the
> toolbar, and the message list pane.  And pressing "up" then "down" does
> not always return you to the starting point.  For example, if you start
> with the search type widget selected, "up" puts you at the end of the
> toolbar, then "down" puts you in the search text field.
> 
> This all adds up to a baffling experience for the would-be keyboard
> user.  After 5 minutes trying to figure out the behavior I went back to
> using the mouse.
> 
> Is all this by design?
> 
> Lee
> 
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Jeffrey Stedfast
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