[HIG] Re: [Usability]HIG/GNOME 2 usability comments (long)

[Gregory Merchan <merchan phys lsu edu>]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 11:11:43AM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > Neither Alt+Esc nor Alt+Tab should focus a non-modal transient-for window.
> > (When a transient-for window is modal, then it receives focus if the parent
> >  window would not.)
> > 
> > Utility windows, palettes, and toolboxes, when not transient-for another
> > window but still related to a window should not be in the Alt+Tab or
> > Alt+Esc sequence. (I don't know how often such windows are used. Maybe
> > they aren't.)
> 
> The problem with excluding these from Alt+Tab is that there will be no
> way to focus them with the keyboard whatsoever at that point, as far
> as I know.

 Alt+F6 allows them to be focussed. Or at least it should.


Cheers,
Greg Merchan