[Fwd: [g-a-devel]Accessibility of Workspace Switcher applet]

[Peter Korn <Peter Korn Sun COM>]

Hi Calum,

> On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 08:11, remus draica wrote:
> 
> > If you press ALT+CTRL+TAB you can select bottom panel. Then if you 
> > press left/right arrow then can move the focus between elements on 
> > bottom panel. If "workspace switcher" is focused there is no chance to 
> > change workspace in this way. As I said before, perhaps is possible to 
> > do that but I don't know how.
> 
> No, there is no way to do this at present.  It wouldn't be hard to come
> up with a scheme for allowing this (just use arrow keys when the applet
> is focused, I guess), but as mentioned earlier it was considered very
> low priority as there are keyboard shortcuts for workspace switching
> anyway.
> 
> Right now the applet is really only focusable so you can access its
> context menu.

Do you know if a bug has been filed on this?  It may remain low priority,
but we should keep track of it.


Peter