GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 76290
Need to be able to give focus to desktop using keyboard
Last modified: 2009-08-16 15:13:28 UTC
There needs to be a way of giving focus to the desktop using the keyboard (cf. bug #70071, "needs to be a way of giving focus to the panel using the keyboard"). Otherwise the desktop will be completely inaccessible to users who can't use the mouse.
this was fixed ten months ago: 2001-06-18 John Harper <jsh@pixelslut.com> * sawfish/wm/windows.jl (focus-desktop): new command, focuses the desktop window if one exists again, this won't be bound by default in the standard sawfish distribution
Gah. So we need a separate tracker for 'things GNOME needs to ship differently from standard sawfish' bug or something maybe? Jeff, any suggestions on that? John, any reason why this won't be shipped by default? P.S. Sorry I've been so lax about cleaning things out for you, John; guadec struck.
I don't know. I just try to keep the number of default bindings to an absolute minimum. Currently there are only three. I can guarantee that whatever key combination you choose to bind focus-desktop to will conflict with an app somewhere But how important my decision is is arguable, since all distributions add their own bindings and other configurations (and often manage to break things in the process, unfortunately). If GNOME wants to have their own default sawfish configuration I see no problem with that (you have to remember that my goals with sawfish aren't totally aligned with the goals of gnome, though I try to satisfy both where there's no conflict, or at least make it possible to achieve both sets) maybe another option is to add this command to the root menu somewhere (window-list menu?)
<i>(you have to remember that my goals with sawfish aren't totally aligned with the goals of gnome, though I try to satisfy both where there's no conflict, or at least make it possible to achieve both sets)</i> Oh, of course- completely understood. Hope you understand that it's my hope (as a GNOME and sawfish user) to gently persuade you to align your goals with GNOME's as much as possible :) I'm really not the usability/a11y guy, so I don't know if your alternate suggestion is good enough for their needs or not.