Re: [Usability] A bunch of UI issues
- From: Calum Benson <calum benson sun com>
- Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org, usability gnome org
- Subject: Re: [Usability] A bunch of UI issues
- Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 19:39:33 +0000
Owen Taylor wrote:
> 58389 'Active area' for GtkRange
>
> Implementation of cancellation by moving away from the scrollbar
> a sufficient distance.
I'd like to add my opposition to this one as well, at least unless
somebody can explain why it would be more useful than annoying...
> 59707 Need keynav for selectable labels.
>
> Question here is how to handle focusing a selectable label;
> the code to implement keynav is there? Should they be in
> the tab chain?
For what it's worth, I don't think they should be in the standard tab
chain, but I don't really have any great alternatives.
One not-so-great alternative might be to only allow keyboard selection
of labels that have an access key, and have a 'special' access key
mechanism for focusing them, e.g. Ctlr+Alt+mnemonic rather than the
usual Alt+menmonic (which would normally focus the control the label
referred to, if it had one). Once such a label had focus, pressing
Tab/Shift+Tab would just move focus to the next/previous control as
usual.
Unfortunately, the most useful labels to select are usually messages in
alert boxes and suchlike, which would probably look odd with an
underlined letter in them :/
Plan B might be to have Tab cycle through everything in a dialog except
selectable labels (as it does right now), and Ctrl+Alt+Tab (or
something, but there aren't many unused combinations that include Tab)
cycle through everything in a dialog *including* selectable labels.
> 67649 Patch for UI issues with range widgets
>
> Main controversial request is to change things so right click
> reverses the direction of action for all mouse bindings.
> I don't think this is a good idea, but maybe a reverse direction
> modifier could be snuck in?
The modifier idea just sounds less confusing to me here, and would
probably be a more accessible solution. Shift would get my vote since
it's generally used to 'reverse' or 'undo' things in accelerator
combinations (e.g. Ctrl+Z = Undo, Shift+Ctrl+Z = Redo).
> 69569 OK/Cancel stock items shouldn't have menmonics?
My comments on this one already in the bug report :o)
Cheeri,
Calum.
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