Re: [Usability] Keyboard navigation in icon view could be easily improved

[Christian Neumair <cneumair gnome org>]

El lun, 05-05-2008 a las 22:54 +0200, Mateusz escribió:
> Hello,
> 
> I was directed here from Fedora bugzilla
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443255).
> 
> Here's my issue:
> 
> When I use right arrow to iterate over all items in a folder, it stops
> at the edge of the window. It would be nice if it could move me to the
> next row.
> The same goes with the left arrow at the left edge: it could move to
> the previous row.
> 
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Open a folder with a large amount of files in the icon view.
> 2. Try to iterate over it with the keyboard.
> 3. See how painlful it is when you reach the edge (especially in a
> maximized window on a wide screen).

If I remember correctly, this change has been discussed many years ago
already. Unfortunately I can not find the relevant GNOME bugzilla bug. I
think the accessibility people objected that visually impaired people
with screen readers will be totally confused by this wrap-around.

Nevertheless, I just committed a patch which implements this behavior if
no accessibility is used. It closes a recent upstream bug report:

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526802

best regards,
 Christian Neumair


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Christian Neumair <cneumair gnome org>