GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 713343
Keyboard shortcut for activating message menu
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:26:20 UTC
---- Reported by adam@yorba.org 2012-04-13 15:44:00 -0700 ---- Original Redmine bug id: 5061 Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5061 Searchable id: yorba-bug-5061 Original author: Adam Dingle Original description: There is apparently no way to access the message menu from the keyboard. Related issues: related to geary - 5515: App Menu button behaves poorly when collapsed in a small ... (Fixed) ---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2012-07-15 14:13:00 -0700 ---- ### History #### #1 Updated by Jim Nelson over 1 year ago * **Category** set to _13_ * **Target version** set to _0.1_ Let's see if we can get this in 0.1. #### #2 Updated by Adam Dingle over 1 year ago * **Target version** deleted (<strike>_0.1_</strike>) #### #3 Updated by Joanmarie Diggs over 1 year ago * **Keywords** set to _accessibility_ Is the "message menu" an element on the toolbar or something else? (If the message menu is something else and/or the fix for this bug would not as a side effect result in full keyboard accessibility of the toolbar, we should create a new issue for keyboard access to the toolbar itself.) #### #4 Updated by Adam Dingle over 1 year ago * **File** screenshot.png added The message menu is not an element on the toolbar - it's the menu dropdown that's located inside each individual message. See the attached screenshot, in which the message menu is open. It actually **is** possible to get to the toolbar in Geary using the keyboard: press Ctrl+Tab a couple of times and the first toolbar button will get keyboard focus, and then you can use the arrow keys to navigate the toolbar. (I agree this may be confusing or not ideal; feel free to open a ticket for this to be improved.) --- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:20 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 5061 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5061 Imported an attachment (id=260656) Unknown Component Using default product and component set in Parameters Unknown version " in product geary. Setting version to "!unspecified". Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one. Resolution set on an open status. Dropping resolution
With Bug 728002 landing on master as 898fa33, both individual messages are easily focused using up/down, and the message menu can now be tabbed into when a message is focused. This is not too different as before that landed, but perhaps the focus chain can be adjusted so that the menu button is always the first widget to receive focus when tabbing it? That would mean the focus chain is different to the visual order however. Perhaps we should be activating it when the context-menu signal (i.e. Shift+F10) is received and the web view isn't focused?
Here's what I can do currently: * I can change focus to conversation viewer with F6 * then the first message in a conversation is selected, in fact a thin dashed line (barely visible) highlights the selected message * I can use Enter to expand/collapse the message - when the message is expanded, clicking on Tab will change focus to the Star icon and then on the message menu, where I can use Tab or arrow keys to choose the action - if the message is collapsed, clicking on Tab will move to the next message Maybe this should be documented somewhere? (once we know the shortcuts and behaviours will stay the same)
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