Panel's keyboard focus

[Olivier Fourdan]

Karsten,

Rejected.

We make the panel focusable on purpose. The user must be able to
navigate the panel items using the keyboard. Avoiding keyboard focus on
the panel would be a "huge usability regression"

Cheers,
Olivier.


On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 19:16, Karsten Luetkewitz wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Currently the panel can receive keyboard focus, which means that
> XFce-panel will always be one of the windows that are included in the
> list of cycleable (Alt-Tab) windows. That is IMHO a huge usability
> regression, I can't think of a sane reason to let the panel receive
> keyboard focus. The following patch makes the panel not
> keyboard-focusable, launcher menus etc are not affected by this patch.
> 
> http://p.plskthx.org/files/themes/xfce4/panel-avoid-keyboard-focus.patch
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