GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 595337
Can not input with keyboard 'Space' button in Calculator
Last modified: 2009-09-17 23:17:43 UTC
1. launch Calculator 2. move focus to the button on the Calculator panel 3. press 'Space' button 4, the button being focused can not be input into the Calculator This bug can be both reproduced in Linux and Solaris.
This bug blocks keyboard accessing for accessibility users. I'd like to confirm this bug cause it can be reproduced on both linux and OpenSolaris with latest GNOME release.
Created attachment 143315 [details] [review] Allows space to work on buttons I think this needs a freeze break: http://live.gnome.org/ReleasePlanning/Freezes
Freeze break requested: "Hi, A bug [1] has been reported against gcalctool 5.27.92 showing that keyboard accessibility does not work. This is a regression from previous stable gcalctool releases. The attached patch fixes this problem by stopping the keyboard event for spacebar from being consumed when the buttons are in focus. I am the maintainer of gcalctool and I approve this patch. [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=595337 Thanks, --Robert Ancell GCalctool Maintainer"
Fixed for 2.28.0: http://git.gnome.org/cgit/gcalctool/commit/?id=2f82c88b4da54c0176447b921c352892cd56d8cc Don't override space bar when buttons are focussed as this stops keyboard control (Robert Ancell, Bug #595337) (Hard code freeze break approved by Andre Klapper and Frederic Peters)