Re: Scrolled window keyboard navigation

[Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>]

On 2/7/02 8:21 PM, "Owen Taylor" <otaylor redhat com> wrote:

> * Since the arrow keys are bound at the scrolled window level,
>  they don't get up to the toplevel, so directional focusing
>  with arrow keys within the scrolled window won't work. This
>  includes things like focusing between the tabs of a notebook,
>  or (more important here) the headers of a GtkTreeView. Fixing
>  this to make these arrows not be overriden by the scrolled
>  window would require using something other than the standard
>  focus() method to drive motion by arrow keys in these
>  contexts.
> 
>  Control-arrows can be used for directional focusing, but I
>  think it might be better to reverse things and use
>  control-arrows to scroll the scrolled window and leave the
>  arrows working normally for widgets within the widget.
> 
>  (It's also possible that the scrolled windows should
>  directionally focus out of the entire scrolled window in
>  analogy to Control-Tab, but that's probably less useful than
>  the other meanings here.)

I think this might wreak havoc with the arrow key bindings in the Nautilus
View as Icon and View as List, but I'm not sure.

    -- Darin