Re: Stock items - toolbar label vs. menu label
- From: Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>
- To: Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth sun com>
- Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org, gnome-components-list gnome org, gnome-accessibility-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: Stock items - toolbar label vs. menu label
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 19:16:16 +0100
Colm Smyth wrote:
>
> I agree that being able to tab into and through an app's toolbar is
> important, but for long toolbars it could increase the effort needed
> to get to, say, the first input widget if that's what you normally
> want to get to.
True, I wouldn't envisage that a toolbar is in the "normal" tab sequence
of a window any more than its menu bar is.
> Maybe the toolbar's buttons should be logically after the main elements in
> a dialog (in terms of tab order) and we need a shortcut key to move
> the focus to the first toolbar button (with <space> to activate, as usual) ?
We should probably remind ourselves how Java handles this; it has
navigable toolbars. (Anybody know off-hand of a Java app with toolbars
we can look at?)
Java doesn't do it with a special shortcut key, as far as I recall, but
perhaps that's not such a bad idea. We're proposing F10 to activate the
menu bar and Shift+F10 for a popup menu-- so without having checked to
see if it's used for anything else, perhaps Ctrl+F10 could cycle focus
through each of the available toolbars...? Just a thought.
Cheeri,
Calum.
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CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland
mailto:calum benson ireland sun com Desktop Engineering Group
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