Re: Misc bugs

[Gleef <dzol virtual-yellow com>]

On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Haukur Hreinsson wrote:
> Excuses for posting this here:
> o I'm lazy.

It took more extra keystrokes to type these excuses than it would have
taken to submit the bugs to the system :-)


> o I fear my submissions to bugs.gnome.org would disappear into the void
> in a crash.

The bugs are not just stored on the server, they are emailed to the
package maintainer.  This is a non-issue.  They really are easier to track
and address if they are on the bug tracking system.


> o don't know what Package: header to put on some of this.

Currently, if you send a bug without a package, it will yell at you, but
someone will come along and figure out what the right package is, and
route it accordingly.


> The bugs:
> o Keyboard navigation of the foot and root menus is strange. Separators
> can get be the current item, but they're not highlighted. The same goes
> for menu headers. Keyboard navigation should skip over those.
>
> o I can't assign keyboard shortcuts to foot menu entries in standard
> gtk+ fashion. The root menu does allow this, however.

These would probably be "Package: panel".


> o When I call up the root menu while the cd player applet is playing a
> cd, the cd stops playing.

Which root menu?  A window manager root menu, or the GNOME desktop root
menu (part of "Package: gmc")?


> o The pager's window list (the one that pops up when you click the up
> arrow) has a tendency to misbehave just after use. Say I use it to
> select window on another screen of the desktop. The display warps to the
> appropriate screen, the window list stays visible, (I think it would be
> better for it to disappear at this point, but that's another story), I
> click the window I just selected in the list, and now the window list
> jumps to such a location that the centre of its bottom edge is at the
> point where I clicked. This happens only some of the time, but fairly
> frequently.

Most applets would be "Package: gnome-core".


> Request
> o Some consideration should be given to the whole topic of keyboard
> navigation, especially for the panel. My biggest beef with systray icons
> in Windows is that they are unreachable by keyboard. The rest of Windows
> is actually quite good when it comes to keyboard navigation. As far as I
> can tell, you can't do anything with the panel if you won't/can't use
> the mouse.

One of the issues here is that many of us are using focus-follows-mouse,
or sloppy-focus.  In both of these focus modes, the only way to give the 
keyboard focus to the panel is to move the mouse.  Of course, this makes
keyboard access for panel much less useful for such users.  Personally, I
think keyboard control of the panel would be a good thing.  I would
suggest pointing out sticking points and submit them to the bug tracking
system as wishlist items ("Severity: wishlist").

Best of Luck,
-Gleef