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

["Padraig O'Briain" <Padraig Obriain sun com>]

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> CC: gnome-accessibility-devel gnome org, calum benson sun com
> Subject: Re: [g-a-devel]KeyNav in Menu Bar Applet (Bug # 74888)
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> 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). 

I have not worked out what exactly is going on but I suspect that what is not 
working is menu navigation rather than general keynav of an applet in a 
different process. I suspect that the use of arrow keys, inside a GtkPlug in a 
different process is being interpreted as focus movement in the panel rather 
than menu navigation in the panel-menu-applet.

We will need to have another applet with menus, implemented in a different 
process, before having to get to the bottpm of this/

Padraig
 
> 
> 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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> > > 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.