Re: new run dialog

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On 22 Apr 2003, Owen Taylor wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 15:28, Jonathan Blandford wrote:
> > Calum Benson <calum benson sun com> writes:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 2003-04-22 at 19:13, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > > > Ctrl-Alt-Tab (to panel)
> > > > F10 (to applications menu)
> > > > Up, Down, Left or Right (to menu item)
> > > > Shift-F10 (menu context menu)
> > > > Down (to 'Add this launcher to panel')
> > > > Enter (actually does it)
> > > > 
> > > > Keyboard navigation! :-)
> > > 
> > > Aah, but how do you create an arbitrary launcher on the desktop rather
> > > than on the panel?
> > > 
> > > Answer: ermm, I don't think you can.  You can move launchers between
> > > panels, but not from panel to desktop, IIRC.  Unless I just have
> > > temporary amnesia, I'll file a bug in the morning :)
> > 
> > Good point.  You can give keyboard focus to items on the desktop, but
> > you can't get the context menu for the whole shebang.  Bug bug bug!
> 
> <control>-F10 seems to work fine for this.
> 
> (I'd really like to know what Tab does when you have the desktop focused
> though... it seems to basically move you around randomly and/or do
> nothing)

There are some initial descriptions of nautilus keynav in 
nautilus/docs/key_mouse_navigation.txt. However, tab on the desktop is 
sort of worthless. It navigates in the order of the internal list of 
icons. For sorted views this means in order, but for manual layout views 
(such as the desktop) it's essentially random.

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