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Bug 125311 - cannot keynav and select links in Gnome-About
cannot keynav and select links in Gnome-About
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-desktop
Classification: Core
Component: gnome-about
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Desktop Maintainers
Desktop Maintainers
AP3
: 149199 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 125310
 
 
Reported: 2003-10-23 14:58 UTC by Patrick Wade
Modified: 2007-11-12 22:23 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
Proposed patch (4.43 KB, patch)
2004-04-08 15:12 UTC, Muktha 		none Details | Review

Description Patrick Wade 2003-10-23 14:58:04 UTC 
There is no apparent way to traverse and choose the hyperlinks in
Gnome-About via the keyboard.

Currently, the only traversal is between the 'Layered Pane' and the 'Close'
button.
Comment 1 david.hawthorne 2003-11-05 16:10:17 UTC 
This bug is also affecting navigation with GOK's 'UI Grab' - There is
nothing to Grab.
Comment 2 Muktha 2004-04-08 15:10:49 UTC 
As per Bill Haneman's suggestion for keynavigability of the hyper links (in bug
#125295), I'm attaching a patch which creates a context menu containing the
hyperlinks. This context menu can be invoked throu' shift+F10.

Quoting Bill Haneman's suggestion for reference
------- Additional Comment #9 From bill.haneman@sun.com 2004-02-05 10:27 ------- 

  regarding the links: it occurs to me that we could provide an F10
  keybinding that treated them as though the horizontal list of links
  were a menu bar.  That would avoid the need to implement AtkHypertext,
  etc.  Similarly, if we created a context menu for gnome-about, which
  was exposed as an action on the toplevel accessible, we could put all
  the links there.  We could then avoid the necessity to make the links
  keyboard navigable since we'd have equivalent functionality available
  from the keyboard.
Comment 3 Muktha 2004-04-08 15:12:55 UTC 
Created attachment 26475 [details] [review]
Proposed patch
Comment 4 Mark McLoughlin 2004-04-19 12:22:37 UTC 
Uggh, a popup menu? Really? That sucks ...

Maybe we should make this thing some fancy HTML with Java script and embed
mozilla or something if we can't even get simple keynav with the canvas :/
Comment 5 Vincent Noel 2004-08-03 19:01:30 UTC 
*** Bug 149199 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 6 bill.haneman 2004-08-03 19:13:59 UTC 
I agree that the popup solution is sucky.  However, can we apply it now, so that
at least the user has _some_ way to do this, until we get a more elegant
solution (either specific to the gnome-about app, or in the canvas)?
Comment 7 Calum Benson 2004-10-21 16:39:49 UTC 
Apologies for spam-- ensuring Sun a11y team are cc'ed on all current a11y bugs.
 Filter on "SUN A11Y SPAM" to ignore.
Comment 8 Calum Benson 2006-04-26 17:08:26 UTC 
Apologies for spam... ensuring Sun a11y folks are cc'ed on all current accessibility bugs.
Comment 9 Vincent Untz 2007-11-12 22:23:35 UTC 
gnome-about has been rewritten in python and doesn't use a canvas anymore. This bug is fixed now. See bug 481585 for more details.