GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 100824
Output window needs some usability and accessibilty review
Last modified: 2006-01-30 21:22:26 UTC
From the ui-review: o Output window - broken keyboard navigation - <huey> a close button on the top left - not very common - FIXME: more stuff said, but got lost in the irc logs on this one -- I (Andrew) will look this up and post it into this bug
I have improved keyboard navigability a bit.
Moving to GNOMEVER2.3 so we don't forget.
Output window needs some usability and accessibilty review. Is anyone willing to give a look at it?
Just came across this old bug and decided to take a look, but couldn't actually work out what the output window was for... perhaps that's a usability problem in itself :) Any clues...?
well, the output window currently is used in just in combination to the shell command plugin... there were others plugins making use of it (the diff plugin iirc) but they have rotten/disappeared. That said, the much talked gedit rework taking place in the new_mdi cvs branch has a more generic bottom pane concept, which at least is not affected by the weird close button location. An output-window widget to be placed in that bottom pane still needs to be written... in fact the shell-output plugin itself needs to be redone. So as far as I can see this bug is pretty much in a "limbo" state at the moment :)
output-window is dead... closing. We'll prolly reintroduce a generic output widget (currently it's part of the tools plugin), but given that there is not much valuable info here[1] I am closing this bug. [1]: the only points raised here are keynav (pretty obvious) and close button on the left (which is fixed)