Re: Scrolled window keyboard navigation
- From: Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com>
- To: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>, Gtk Developers <gtk-devel-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Scrolled window keyboard navigation
- Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 20:44:37 -0800
On 2/7/02 8:21 PM, "Owen Taylor" <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
> * Since the arrow keys are bound at the scrolled window level,
> they don't get up to the toplevel, so directional focusing
> with arrow keys within the scrolled window won't work. This
> includes things like focusing between the tabs of a notebook,
> or (more important here) the headers of a GtkTreeView. Fixing
> this to make these arrows not be overriden by the scrolled
> window would require using something other than the standard
> focus() method to drive motion by arrow keys in these
> contexts.
>
> Control-arrows can be used for directional focusing, but I
> think it might be better to reverse things and use
> control-arrows to scroll the scrolled window and leave the
> arrows working normally for widgets within the widget.
>
> (It's also possible that the scrolled windows should
> directionally focus out of the entire scrolled window in
> analogy to Control-Tab, but that's probably less useful than
> the other meanings here.)
I think this might wreak havoc with the arrow key bindings in the Nautilus
View as Icon and View as List, but I'm not sure.
-- Darin
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