GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 713436
In conversation viewer and composer Shift+TAB should shift focus out of the web view
Last modified: 2021-07-05 13:24:50 UTC
---- Reported by adam@yorba.org 2012-03-15 12:15:00 -0700 ---- Original Redmine bug id: 4848 Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/4848 Searchable id: yorba-bug-4848 Original author: Adam Dingle Original description: When I'm composing a message in Geary, I sometimes enter a Subject, tab down to the message area, then realize I want to change the Subject I entered. It would be nice if I could press Shift+TAB to return to the Subject line in this case. Related issues: related to geary - 5014: in composer, message area should follow Subject in tab order (Fixed) related to geary - 5360: Keyboard focus strangeness when composing new message (Duplicate) related to geary - 7675: Shift+Tab should move focus from conversation viewer to ... (Open) ---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-11-06 19:22:00 -0800 ---- ### History #### #1 Updated by Adam Dingle over 1 year ago * **Target version** deleted (<strike>_0.1_</strike>) #### #2 Updated by Jim Nelson 15 days ago * **Category** set to _ux_ --- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:20 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 4848 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4848 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
I run into the same problem! +1 to fix this
Currently in the composer's message body editor, Shift+Tab is bound to "remove current tab" - i.e. if you press Tab, you get a tab character inserted, and if you press Shift+Tab it is removed. This only works if the text cursor is in front of a tab however, and so it is basically redundant given the Backspace key. So we should probably remove the custom handling for Shift+Tab, and look into updating the custom focus chain so this works. Note for the moment that you can use Ctrl+Tab and Ctrl+Shift+Tab to escape the editor.
This is applicable to the conversation viewer as well.
Created attachment 352590 [details] [review] Make Shift+TAB focus subject when focus is in a composer widget While implementing it I tried to find a way to move focus using default GTK focus flow logic. However, after looking into GTK code, it seems to me that all that logic is private to GTK. This is why, proposed solution sets focus explicitly on Subject entry.
Bump tickets to 0.14 that aren't going to make 0.13.
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