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Bug 92036 - Too easy to get out of side pane by tabbing
Too easy to get out of side pane by tabbing
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: Keyboardability
2.0.x
Other Solaris
: High normal
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Assigned To: Dave Camp
Nautilus Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-08-29 19:19 UTC by Calum Benson
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Calum Benson 2002-08-29 19:19:10 UTC 
Currently it's too easy to escape from the side pane by tabbing or shift
tabbing.  This is particularly bad since it's very hard to see where the
focus is on the side pane when you press F6 to switch to it, especially if
it goes to the side pane background.  So, typically you tab or arrow around
a bit trying to find it, and lo and behold you find yourself back in the
icon view :)

It would be better if Tab/arrow keys wrapped focus around controls within
the side pane, and Ctrl+Tab (our standard 'get me out of here' key) moved
focus to the next control outside the side pane.
Comment 1 Luis Villa 2002-09-03 17:38:05 UTC 
Very borderline high.
Comment 2 Dave Camp 2002-09-12 23:25:12 UTC 
fixed in sun_patches.

This is another thing that will be replaced by a different sidebar
widget in gnome2.2.