Re: Is keynav to unavailable menu items a bug?

[Olaf Jan Schmidt <ojschmidt kde org>]

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[Peter Korn, Dienstag, 19. Oktober 2004 02:03]
> When Mozilla is running on GNOME, Mozilla behaves as it does on Windows
> - you can arrow to unavailable menu items (and if you are running
> Gnopernicus, you will be told that these items aren't available).  This
> has led to some confusion on the part of our testers (see bug #155506in
> bugzilla, at: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155506).
>
> I'm curious what folks' thoughts are on this...
>

Mozilla is consistent with KDE here. This means that changing Mozilla on
Linux would not improve consistency, but rather move it.

I also think that it is probably better not to skip the unavailable items.
If unavailable items are included, then you can be sure that quickly
hitting five times "down arrow" will always move the cursor to the fifth
item. If some of the items are skipped sometimes, then you will need to
listen after each keypress where exactly the cursor is, which will lead
to a slow-down.

Olaf

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Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility Project
KDEAP co-maintainer, maintainer of http://accessibility.kde.org

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