Re: [Usability] keyboard/focus annoyance after sorting in list view

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 11:03 +0000, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote:
> [ added usability gnome org to cc ]
> 
> 2009/3/6 Holger Berndt <berndth gmx de>:
> > I don't know how Apple does it -- but to me, that is an excellent idea!
> > Though I don't think this can be automated in a meaningful way, as
> > general rules by widget type are not really useful.
> >
> > Still, gtk+ could have a global bool switch to build up the focus chain
> > of all focusable widgets or just the ones that the developer considers
> > "important" for keyboard navigation. Each widget would have a property
> > "important_for_keyboard_navigation" that application developers can
> > set.
> >
> > Closing the loop to the other thread, Ctrl-Tab would then be an alias
> > to Tab if the global switch is set to true.
> >
> > Alternatively, the global switch could be left out completely, and
> > Ctrl-Tab be made an iterator that only considers these "important"
> > widgets.
> 
> Agree. Teaching gtk+ about such a property would be very useful and
> Alt+Tab could indeed be overloaded with what the HIG currently assigns
> it to:

Eh, alt-tab already has a window manager binding.