On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 18:17 +0100, Holger Berndt wrote: > On Di, 03.03.2009 11:11, Alexander Larsson wrote: > > >> Well, Tab is the standard key for walking through the focus chain. The > >> question is just what the focus chain should contain. The draft that I > >> coded up so far sets a focus chain containing only the left and right > >> panes in split view mode. That's what people who used a split-view > >> filebrowser before most likely expect. > > > >It is however not what users of Gtk+ applications expect. They expect > >all focusable widgets to be in the focus chain. > > > > Personally, I consider the following functionality to be essential in > order for split view to be useful in the first place: > - make other pane active > - copy selection to other pane > - move selection to other pane > - visit same location in other pane > > These should either have a keyboard shortcut, or it should be possible > to assign one. > > As discussed in other leafs of this thread, there should be no problem > with the latter three. > > If overruling Tab during split view by default is not an option, I can > see the following solutions: > > 1. create a gconf key, defaulting to false, to set the focus chain only > containing the two panes in split view mode > 2. leave the focus chain as it is, but create a menu item "switch to > other pane"
I'd rather pick another key shortcut that is not used currently. As I commented in another thread, such a shortcut is useful even in the no-split-view case where it could set focus on the view, independent on where focus was before. Not sure what the best shortcut would be though. Ctrl-Tab? 10.2.4.2. Standard Widget Navigation Shortcut Keys in http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/input-keyboard.html.en lists some interesting keys, like: F6, Shift+F6 - Give focus to next/previous pane in a GtkPaned window F8 - Give focus to splitter bar in paned window Maybe we could use F4 or something for switching between views / focusing the view. -- nautilus-list mailing list nautilus-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/nautilus-list