Re: panel-client? (Re: GNU Midnight Commander 4.5.39 is released)

["James M. Cape" <jcape jcinteractive com>]

Daniel Serodio wrote:
> 
> Chris Rogers wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, 25 Sep 1999, Kuba Winnicki wrote:
> >
> > > something like "panel-client --open-foot-menu" in his favorite window manager.
> > > Distributions which include GNOME could have bound that to for instance menu
> > > key with their "default" GNOME window manager.
> > >
> > > Question "how to open foot menu with keyboard?" reappears every period of time
> > > on gnome-list/gnome-gui-list. If we could have it in 1.0.50 we would avoid
> >
> > I was just going thorough my backlog of gnome-list mail, and saw this
> > posting.  I think this is a great idea (unless there is a better way to do
> > this)  I don't see any responce to this, and haven't heard it mentioned so
> > was wondering if it was shot down (because there is a better way?), being
> > implemented, or waiting for someone to do it.  If it is the last I'll
> > volunteer, it drives me nuts not being able to bring up the menu with a
> > keyboard shortcut.
> 
>         Agreed. I think one of the aspects in which Gnome is lacking the most is
> keyboard navigation. You need the mouse to do *anything*, the existing
> keybindings are not very consistent, developers forget to bind Enter to OK
> buttons and ESC to Cancel, etc. Maybe we should make a "Keyboard Navigation
> Effort", like the Icons and the UI one?

Well, keyboard navigation is part of the user interface, but the way the
panel works now, an extension to the wm spec is necessary (unless one
wants to mess with keyboard shorcuts across the various WMs).

    Jim Cape
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