Re: [g-a-devel]KeyNav in Menu Bar Applet (Bug # 74888)

[Hema Seetharamaiah <hema seetharamaiah wipro com>]

Hi Padraig,

In the latest Menu Bar Apllet ( panel-menu) code.. has some changes that
makes it key navigable now. As of yesterday ( and the day before), the
author has checked in some changes that make this applet fully
navigable.

Basically he now builds a library out of the code and not an executable.
And this applet seems to be now running as a gnome-panel process. I am
not very clear about what's happening here. I will try and explain,

Now, when you add an Menu Bar applet, instead of having a
panel-menu-applet's PID, there will now be a new additional gnome-panel
PID. So I guess... the applet is kind of inprocess.

Anyway, the result is that we now have a fully key - navigable applet.

But, nevertheless, we do have that buggy behaviour of not being able to
navigate if the applet is a separate process ( the gtksocket/gtkplug
stuff I think). 

Regards,
Hema.

Padraig O'Briain wrote:
> 
> Hema,
> 
> I see what you mean.
> 
> I have created an edge panel and added the panel menu applet to it. Previously I
> had added a panel-menu-applet to the FooBar widget and could not access the
> panel-menu-applet using F10 as there was a menu bar in the Foobar widget.
> 
> When I press F10 the first menu the Applications menu in the menu bar is
> displayed but the arrow keys do not work correctly. I will try to figure out
> what is happening.
> 
> Padraig
> 
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> > To: "Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>
> > CC: gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org, calum benson sun com
> > Subject: Re: [g-a-devel]KeyNav in Menu Bar Applet (Bug # 74888)
> >
> >
> > Hi Padraig,
> >
> > > > I first set focus in my applet using tab. Then when I press 'f10' - I
> > > > get the first menu.
> > >
> > > At this point do you use arrow keys or Tab keys or both to navigate the
> menus?
> >
> > I use Arrow keys to navigate the menus that make up the applet.
> >
> > > When using the menu bar applet in a different provess does pressing the F10
> key
> > > get the first menu?
> >
> > Yes. f10 - if the focus is set on the applet.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Hema.

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