GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 654784
Window selection with keyboard shortcuts in the Activities overview
Last modified: 2011-07-17 15:01:02 UTC
Bug overview: Once in the Activities overview, no keyboard shortcut is available to select a window and get out of the activities overview. We have to use the mouse to do that. Indeed, the GNOME desktop help doesn't mention such a keyboard shortcut in the following section: Help > Tips & tricks > Useful keyboard shortcut. This seems inconsistent with the GNOME Human Interface Guidelines 2.2.2 (http://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/stable/index.html.en): "1.2.1. Accessibility. Users with limited movement may not be able to use your application if you don't provide keyboard equivalents for commands". "10.1.1. Buttons. Ensure that every operation in your application that can be done with the mouse can also be done with the keyboard". Therefore, the expected result is that some keyboard shortcut(s) would let us select a window in the Activities overview. Suggestion: why not allow Alt+Tab to do it, since it does the same job from the desktop view? Platform info: currently running under Fedora 15 and GNOME 3.0.1.
Yes, we do want keyboard navigation for windows in the overview - everything else (dash, applications, search results, workspaces) can be navigated already, having it for windows is the last missing piece. Note however that we want this in the core, not as an extension. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 644306 ***