GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 53936
Panel needs to be keyboard accessible
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
As soon as we can suggest *how* the panel should be keyboard accessible, we'll fill in the details! But it needs doing... Perhaps there needs to be an option for panels to appear in the TaskList and/or the window cycling order. Whatever, there need to be ways of doing at least the following using only the keyboard: - giving keyboard focus to any available panel, and showing which one currently has focus - selecting/activating any launcher/drawer/menu/applet on the panel, and showing which one currently has focus-- and of course, all the launchers/drawers/menus/applets also then need to be keyboard accessible themselves! - Popping up the tooltip for whatever panel item currently has focus (this should be done by pressing Ctrl+F1-- see bug #53614) - re-arranging/adding/removing any launchers/drawers/menus/applets on any panel - showing/hiding any panel that is capable of being shown/hidden
Adding to the 2.0 milestone
*** Bug 63086 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
From the duplicate: Ideally we need the following pieces of accessibility support for the panel: keyboard (mouseless) navigation and activation. theming support, including font size and color styles ATK interfaces implemented on its widgets.
NB The proposed panel keynav spec can be found at http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/keynav/panelnav.html
Adding relevant keywords. You can filter on the phrase 'luis doing GNOME2 work' to catch all instances of this so that you can ignore them.
moving gnome-panel-2 specific bugs to gnome-panel product
How's progress on this bug?
Well, we're getting there slowly... copying padraig on this bug as he's doing the implementation
There is a problem getting the focus onto the panel using just the keyboard. I have logged bug 70071 against sawfish on this. There are issues with applets whose BonoboPlug is in a different process. The applet panel-menu-applet is one where I am clear how it will be made navigable. The panel itself should be navigable along the lines described in http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gap/keynav/panelnav.html. I would welcome any bug reports.
Okay, so I think I'll close this and we have seperate bugs for any outstanding issues Calum agrees :-)