GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 70270
KEYNAV: Main part of GNOME About dialog should be keyboard selectable, like authors list
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
It would be good if the app name/version info in the GNOME About dialog was focusable/selectable as the Authors/Documentation list now seems to be.
Leaving as severity normal since this doesn't seem to be as a high priority for you, Calum. Please adjust up to major if you want.
Fixed in CVS.
This dialog appears to have been recently redesigned, now having a Credits button and dialog. However, none of the version information text in the main dialog is keyboard-only selectable in the new version (although you can do so with the mouse), and neither is any of the information in the Credits dialog. The info in the credits dialog is probably less critical, but I think it's important to be able to select and copy version numbers etc. from the about box. The real solution is probably to fix the 'how to give focus to selectable GtkLabels' bug (#59707), but in the meantime could we consider working around by using some other widget to display the version info?
I don't think it's worth to change the widget used to something else, mainly because of two reasons * I don't know which widgets to use instead * I don't feel comfortable changing the widgets just to change them back when #59707 has been fixed. If you don't agree with this then feel free to reopen.
Bill, any particularly strong feelings about the lack of selectability here from an accessibility viewpoint? Seth, Nils, anything to add to the usability comments I made earlier in the report?