Feature Suggestion

Brian J. Tarricone bjt23 at cornell.edu
Fri Jan 13 09:05:57 CET 2006


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Biju Chacko wrote:
> Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
> 
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>>Biju Chacko wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I was working on GNOME today, and I noticed something that seemed to be 
>>>  a good idea. Similar to the way Alt-Tab cycles through windows, 
>>>Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Tab Cycles through the panels and the desktop.
>>>
>>>This seems like a good way to give focus to a panel or the desktop via 
>>>the keyboard.
>>>
>>>It may be worth copying the idea.
>>
>>Except neither the panel or the desktop will *accept* focus...
> 
> That's fixable. More keyboard navigation is good.

IIRC, making the panel unfocusable was a deliberate decision some time
ago.  The desktop hasn't needed to accept focus until recently, and it
doesn't yet support keyboard navigation anyway (yeah, it's on my todo
list).  Still, the ctrl+alt+shift+tab thing seems like a niche, rather
undiscoverable feature.  Mainly useful to a minority of power users,
secondarily for people with disabilities (the latter which I have no
problem adding features for; the former... eh).

	-b

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