On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 11:03 +0000, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote: > [ added [email protected] to cc ] > > 2009/3/6 Holger Berndt <[email protected]>: > > 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. _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
