Re: selectable labels

[Calum Benson <calum benson ireland sun com>]

Sven Neumann wrote:
> 
> Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:
> > Still missing from the patch is a right-click menu,
> > though it will somewhat oddly have only the single item "copy" in it.

Presumably the menu will be extensible by the programmer, though?  (For
example, a "Help" menu item would be useful, for context sensitive help
on the label, or on the control that the label is describing).

> I'd even welcome if one could always copy from labels, so perhaps
> selectable should be the default. I do not see the point in a right-click
> menu however.

Well, if-and-when we get a standard keyboard shortcut for popping up
context menus (like Shift+F10 or the menu key in MS Windows), I can see
it might have an accessibility benefit.  But not a huge one, if you
could select the label and hit Ctrl+C anyway.  

Perhaps more importantly, people who can't use a mouse could only select
and copy the label if it was part of the tab sequence, which labels
shouldn't normally be-- anyone got any thoughts on how to get around
that?

Cheeri,
Calum.

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