GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 465085
OOo sbase Table Wizard Shift-Tab from " > " button doesn't return you to the Available Fields list.
Last modified: 2007-08-21 01:11:11 UTC
Tested with OOo-dev 2.3.0 (build #223) Linux RPM's on Ubuntu Gutsy (with all the latest updates and latest Orca from SVN HEAD). Steps to reproduce: 1/ Start Orca 2/ Start /opt/ooo-dev2.3/program/sbase 3/ Work through the startup wizard. Choose to create a new database. Click Next. 4/ Say "Yes, please register database for me" and "Open for editing AND Create tables". Click Finish. 5/ When the "Save as" dialog appears, select a name and press Save. 6/ When the Table Wizard appears, select the category "Personal", and then (from the pull down list) the sample table called "Addresses" 7/ Tab into that list and arrow down to the LastName entry. 8/ Press Tab to move to the " > " button and press Return. The LastName item is moved to the Selected Field list. 9/ Press Shift-Tab. What should happen is that focus is returned to the "Available Fields" list. Instead it's placed on the Next button. There is no easy way to return to the "Available Fields" list, which is a very likely scenario if you are setting up a database record. This is YAOOoB, so I'll file an issue in the OOo database and block this one.
Filed OOo issue #80536 http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=80536
The OpenOffice issue #80536 has been marked resolved, with the following comment: "This works for me in a OOO 2.3 (m225) version with a problem. SHIFT+TAB return to the list. set this to WORKSFORME" Unfortunately this still doesn't work for me (retested with the OOG680 Linux RPM's from 13th August 2007), so perhaps somebody else would like to try it and see what they get. Thanks.
Rich, if I shift+tab I land back in the Available Fields list. Maybe it's 64-bit weirdness?
I'm testing it on my 32bit PC. :-( Hey, if it works for you and it works for the OOo engineer, then it probably can be closed out. I'll let you close it out though, as it still doesn't workforme. Thanks.
Well, if it doesn't workforyou that's still a problem so I don't think we should close this out yet. Could it be the keyboard you're using? Does it happen only if Orca is running?
Okay, I see what's going on. Hitting Return when focus is on the [ > ] button does indeed return focus back to the list. What it also does is put an orange highlight around the Next button. Joanie, do you see that happening? If I'm confused by this, perhaps a low vision user would be too. Closing it as YANAB.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh. Rich, I don't use the default "Human" theme because it's awfully brown -- when it's not busy being awfully orange. So I just switched to it and, yeah, I now totally see what you mean. Visually three things change when you shift+tab: 1. Very faint, hardly noticeable dots appear around the selected item in the list to suggest that focus is there should you happen to be able to see this change and not think your monitor needs cleaning. 2. The tiny [>] button loses its cheap-neon-sign (orange, very orange, but at least it's not brown) glow. 3. The much larger Next button gains the cheap neon sign glow. Visually it does indeed look like Next has focus -- and that the list doesn't. :-( Clearlooks is a nice theme. ;-)
> Clearlooks is a nice theme. ;-) So how exactly do you select Clearlooks? On my Ferrari, System->Preferences->Appearance shows it there as a selectable theme, and it does look nice. I've swapped. But on my 32 bit PC, it's not there. I used the Synaptic Package Manager to install the two dummy gtk packages with clearlooks in their name, but it hasn't turned up. The only two selectable themes there are "Custom" and "Human".
Joanie showed me the magic incantation offline (thanks!): % sudo apt-get install --reinstall gnome-themes gtk2-engines This nicely gave me Clearlooks as an option on my 32bit PC and I've swapped there too. I can now see that when I do a Shift-Tab after the [ > ] button has focus, the previous list entry in the Available fields is solidly selected in blue, and there is a thin blue line (no Rowan Atkinson jokes please) around the Next button. Much better.