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Bug 117567 - unable to 'UI grab' drop-down combo-boxes
unable to 'UI grab' drop-down combo-boxes
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gok
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
unspecified
Other Solaris
: High enhancement
: ---
Assigned To: bill.haneman
bill.haneman
: 120489 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 117582
 
 
Reported: 2003-07-16 10:53 UTC by david.hawthorne
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description david.hawthorne 2003-07-16 10:53:22 UTC 
Using gnome-2.4 nightly build from 14 July 2003.

. logged in as normal user from failsafe session

- run gok
- go to GOK's preferences
- go to access methods
. GOK keyboard has just UI Grab highlighted
- select UI GRab
. there is no button on GOK keyboard to access the selection method
drop-down combo-box. I had to manually select it whilst in direct selection
mode, otherwise only cycling through options on the page with the tab key
can select it.
Comment 1 David Bolter 2003-07-16 14:13:36 UTC 
David, thanks again.  This is a known issue. The UI grab feature is
not exhaustive. It is, however an ultimate goal and so I will open an
uber-bug for adding UI grabbage. I am not sure this is priority for
2.3 as the user can still branch to the compose keyboard and use
"regular" keyboard access to control the GUI.
Comment 2 Calum Benson 2003-08-07 16:08:37 UTC 
Apologies for spam... marking as GNOMEVER2.3 so it appears on the official GNOME
bug list :)
Comment 3 bill.haneman 2003-08-22 17:14:12 UTC 
*** Bug 120489 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 bill.haneman 2003-12-02 13:40:31 UTC 
I think we ought to fix this one for GOK 1.0.  If time permits I'd
target GNOME 2.6 also.
Comment 5 David Bolter 2003-12-02 13:49:14 UTC 
What is the status of using gok key nav on drop-down combo boxes?
Comment 6 bill.haneman 2003-12-11 11:27:56 UTC 
bumping up priority since these are so common, and since it means GOK
can't be used very well to configure GOK itself (e.g. doesn't work
well with the preferences dialog).
Comment 7 bill.haneman 2003-12-11 20:17:20 UTC 
at the least, we should put the comboboxes in the UI Grab and then
focus them if the corresponding GokKey is activated.  From there, the
compose keyboard could be conveniently used to navigate.

Better would be to actually branch to a GokKeyboard containing the
drop-down list items; possibly not a lot more work.

I think this is best handled in or jsut after my performance patch,
since it's revamping most of the UI Grab stuff.

assigning to myself for now, may reassign to david later
Comment 8 David Bolter 2004-01-21 15:25:12 UTC 
Bill, I believe the honour is yours, please close this one :-)