Re: [g-a-devel]Clarification on gtkoptionmenu keynav.

[Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>]

Narayana Pattipati wrote:
> 
> Is it Ok to have Home/End keynavigation for menus other than
> optionmenus also??
>
> Am I overlooking something in implementing this.??

Hmm... well, from the user's point of view at least, I can't think of
any usability problems this would cause.  I don't expect Home/End will
be a particularly useful navigation feature in other types of menus,
because all items in those should have access keys anyway.  But I don't
think it would hurt either.

The only thing it might interfere with is the ability to dynamically
assign Home or End as a menu shortcut at runtime.  (In gtk, you can
change menu shortcuts by focusing a menu item, then pressing the key you
want to be the shortcut for that menu item).  If it does interfere, I'm
not sure what should get priority-- probably the shortcut assignment, if
that feature is turned on (I think it's off by default in gtk-2.0).

Cheeri,
Calum.

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