GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 108327
Keyboard navigation broken
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
When the Notification Area Applet is focused, <ctrl>-F10 fails to bring up the panel menu. The applet also fails to show its tooltip on F1. Further, it doesn't appear to be possible to navigate the individual icons in the area.
Which applet is being referred to here? Is it the Workspace Switcher applet?
I'm referring to the "Notification Area Applet" (I think that that's the english word for it. "Panelnotifieringsyta" in swedish). The problem might be related to Red Hat Phoebe or acme. I'm now experiencing a completely different keynav problem with this applet: the applet refuses to release focus once it has it. The only way I can focus another applet is by using the mouse.
Ctrl+F10 fails to popup the panel menu. I find the same problem with stickynotes applet. As regards tooltips I believe that it is Ctrl+F1 whuch should bring up the tooltip. I cannot get a tooltip to show when hovering the mouse over the applet.
I have logged bug 109394 about Ctrl+F10 not working.
Updating status_whiteboard field to reflect A11Y team's assessment of accessibility impact.
How can I add icons to the notification area? I am building from HEAD on Solaris.
Got to know from Mark that applications add icons to the notification area applet. For eg, once the cd-player app is started, the cd-player icon gets added to the notification area applet. I've also observed that when there're no icons in the notification area applet, no tooltip is displayed when the mouse is moved over the applet. But once the icons are added to the applet, the tooltip is shown only with the mouse. In this case, when I moved the mouse over the applet the cd player tooltip was displayed. But the same was not displayed with the keyboard (Ctrl+F1).
control-F10 now seems to be working (posts panel context menu) as does Shift-F10 (posts applet context menu), but Control-F1 for tooltip does not. F10 seems to post the panel applications/actions menus as it should. However - navigation between notification area items is not yet possible. Reducing priority based on fact that only the tooltip and intra-applet keynav seems broken now. However it's not possible to post the notification-widget-specific context menus from the keyboard, as a result (it's only possible to post the notification-area-applet's own context menu).
I think we can close this one and keep 112474 open.
Probably no coincidence that Ctrl+F1 is only broken for those panel objects that you no longer seem to be able to move with the middle mouse button...? I'll add that observation to #113982 and close this one as a dup of #112474. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 112474 ***