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Bug 339304 - Bookmark menu should respond to key presses
Bookmark menu should respond to key presses
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: epiphany
Classification: Core
Component: Bookmarks
git master
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Epiphany Maintainers
Marco Pesenti Gritti
Depends on:
Blocks: 755378
 
 
Reported: 2006-04-21 13:54 UTC by Wouter Bolsterlee (uws)
Modified: 2018-07-27 12:32 UTC
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Description Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2006-04-21 13:54:51 UTC 
I think the bookmark menu should respond to characters typed on the keyboard. I think only using the first letter of the bookmark name will be fine. Multiple matches for a single letter can be handled by jumping to the next match if the letter was pressed again.

Example:
- Bar
- Baz
- Foo

Pressing B will select Bar (but not load the page), pressing B again will select Baz (but not load the page). Pressing F will select Foo (should it load the page if there's only one match? I don't think it's consistent)
Comment 1 Reinout van Schouwen 2006-04-27 10:35:05 UTC 
cc'ing harves.
Comment 2 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2011-08-24 03:35:53 UTC 
 is the bug still relevant in epiphany 3.0 ?
Comment 3 Wouter Bolsterlee (uws) 2011-08-24 07:16:02 UTC 
Yes, it is.
Comment 4 Michael Catanzaro 2016-09-28 16:30:37 UTC 
I don't think this is how menus are expected to work nowadays?
Comment 5 Reinout van Schouwen 2016-09-28 21:42:52 UTC 
(In reply to Michael Catanzaro from comment #4)
> I don't think this is how menus are expected to work nowadays?

Well you're correct that there's nothing about it in the HIG, however bookmarks are a bit of a special case as you cannot predict the menu items so you don't have any keyboard shortcuts by definition. This could alleviate that disadvantage a bit.

For comparison, the GTK+ dropdown box does react to the first letter of selectable items if you type them.
Comment 6 Michael Catanzaro 2018-07-27 12:32:34 UTC 
This suggestion doesn't make sense with the current bookmarks UI