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Bug 451852 - automatically move mouse cursor to default button
automatically move mouse cursor to default button
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: Other
2.19.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2007-06-28 12:35 UTC by y y
Modified: 2011-09-10 08:58 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description y y 2007-06-28 12:35:24 UTC 
A nice Mouse preference to add is "automatically move mouse cursor to default button".  This helps reduce carpal tunnel syndrome and RSIs since you don't have to move your mouse as much.


Other information:
Windows, OS X, and OpenOffice.org all have the ability to set this missing accessibility feature.  Windows calls it, "automatically move pointer to the default button in a dialog box".
Comment 1 Jens Granseuer 2007-06-28 17:37:21 UTC 
Before such an option can be added to the control center, somebody actually needs to implement the functionality. Whether that means one of the a11y packages, gtk+, or something else, I don't know. Just adding the option is not magically going to get it done, though.
Comment 2 david.vantyghem 2009-09-24 14:43:37 UTC 
It would be great if somebody make this addind. It's really useful under Windows.
Comment 3 Vincent 2010-11-21 08:39:00 UTC 
I also miss this feature.
For information, here is the blueprint on Launchpad: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/mouse-moves-to-default-button/
Comment 4 Bastien Nocera 2011-07-14 16:13:26 UTC 
We'd need the ability to do that in GTK+ first. Moving there.
Comment 5 Matthias Clasen 2011-07-14 17:01:51 UTC 
I don't see gtk growing magic pointer warping. I think thats a pretty dubious feature. Just hit Enter if you want the default button activated. No mouse motion involved at all.
Comment 6 david.vantyghem 2011-09-10 08:55:14 UTC 
It's so easy to answer it's not useful, impossible to do etc. Keep on doing that and I'm sure that, one day, Gnome will be used by nobody.
Comment 7 david.vantyghem 2011-09-10 08:58:52 UTC 
Switching between mouse and keyboard is worse than moving the mouse.