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Bug 641402 - using keyboard for navigation inside the gnome-shell menus
using keyboard for navigation inside the gnome-shell menus
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-02-03 19:42 UTC by Aleksandra Bookwar
Modified: 2011-04-10 13:33 UTC
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Description Aleksandra Bookwar 2011-02-03 19:42:41 UTC
while testing Gnome3 
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2011-02-03_GNOME3_Alpha
got the following idea

we need to improve the keyboard navigation

the exaples are

1) you should be able to hit the Super, than by arrows to go to the needed window, then to hit Super again and you are there
or
2) you hit Super, then Tab to go to the Applications menu, then arrows to find one you need, then Enter to start it

or something like this
Comment 1 Aleksandra Bookwar 2011-02-04 02:00:46 UTC
During search in Overview mode, the only keys working are Up and Down

Arrows "Left" and "Right" should work also
Comment 2 Dan Winship 2011-02-04 14:29:19 UTC
As in GNOME 2.x, you use Ctrl-Alt-Tab to get the keyboard focus onto non-application-window elements such as the panel. Currently you can only use it with the panel, but it will eventually allow moving the focus between overview sections as well. And yes, the search icons will eventually have grid-like navigation. (There's another bug about that.)
Comment 3 Aleksandra Bookwar 2011-04-10 13:14:07 UTC
Search icons now have navigation using Up/Down arrows, but i wanted grid navigation in Overview mode as well.

Check the first post for explanation.

There is a windowNavigator extension which probably does the same thing, but it doesn't work on my current Fedora Beta RC2 desktop. And I think this keyboard navigation should be a part of default gnome-shell, since it provides very basic and obvious functionality.

So i ask to open this bug and put this feature in ToDo list for future gnome-shell.
Comment 4 Florian Müllner 2011-04-10 13:33:27 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> So i ask to open this bug and put this feature in ToDo list for future
> gnome-shell.

See bug 644306.