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Bug 611051 - Search Entry Clear Icon not accessible
Search Entry Clear Icon not accessible
Status: RESOLVED NOTGNOME
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: GtkEntry
2.90.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-02-25 08:42 UTC by Arky
Modified: 2010-09-08 23:27 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Arky 2010-02-25 08:42:35 UTC 
Noticed this problem in numerous Gnome applications like evolution and nautilus. Whenever you encounter a search entry box, the clear icon (GTK_STOCK_CLEAR) is not accessible with the keyboard. You can select it with mouse only.

Testcase:
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1) start gtk-demo
2) Select 'Search Entry demo' (/usr/share/gtk-2.0/demo/search_entry.c)
3) Type 'test' and press tab, the focus shifts to find button.
Comment 1 Matthias Clasen 2010-03-09 01:02:14 UTC 
Not a gtk bug, really. The documentation for this feature says:

Note that functionality or information that is only available by clicking 
on an icon in an entry may not be accessible at all to users which are not 
able to use a mouse or other pointing device. It is therefore recommended 
that any such functionality should also be available by other means, e.g. 
via the context menu of the entry.


Please complain to the applications that don't follow this advice.

I have now updated the search-entry example to show how this can be done.