GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 75932
Menu panel keynav mostly broken
Last modified: 2015-03-24 13:00:31 UTC
Still little or no keynav available on the menu panel; neither the menus, clock or dropdown window list receive keyboard focus. Only any launchers, menus or applets you add yourself seem to be focusable. Also, menu panel only showed focus highlight correctly until the first time I clicked on it and tried tabbing along it-- after that, clicking on the menu panel didn't show the highlight any more, although I could still tab along it to give focus to objects I'd added to the panel manually.
*** Bug 13119 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Moving to gnome-applets
Kevin, this is the menu *panel*, not applet :-) Moving back to gnome-panel
Is the "menu panel", the FooBar widget displayed on the top of the screen?
Yes, I meant the Foobar, or whatever the thing that's created when you select "Create Panel > Menu Panel"[1] is called these days. [1] A menu option which now seems to have disappeared even when you don't currently have a menu panel on your desktop :/
Padraig - we talked about this the other day. Could you append your comments here ... I'd be likely to misrepresent what you said :-)
1) We currently do not have an indication when focus is on the panel. 2) The menu and drop down window list are menubars. The menu receives focus by pressing F10 and then Ctrl+Tab cycles between the menu and drop down list 3) Tab cycles focus between objects on the panel. The focus indication is not very clear (bug 70580) but Shift+F10 which brings up the context menu should confirm which object has focus.
Padraig: the panel not showing a focus indication should be fixed by your latest patch, right ? Calum: if there is focus indication, are there any remaining issues?
I have just done the commit with implements Ctrl+F10 to display the panel's context menu when focus is on panel or applet so PanelWidget does not receive focus unless there areno objects on the panel. See gnome-panel/doc/panel-keynav.txt for how to make visible that focus is in panel. The issues now are whether focus indication is adequate for objects on the panel and I believe that this issue is adequaelt captured by other bugs. I according propose to mark this bug as fixed. If there are sdtill issues please open another bug.