[Sugar-devel] Keyboard navigability of the Sugar UI

[Christian Marc Schmidt]

Hi Bernie

The proposed keyboard shortcuts sound good. Maybe we can chat about  
the TBD items?

Christian

Sent from my iPhone

On Apr 27, 2010, at 7:25 AM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>  
wrote:

> Today I filed a bug to keep track of an issue that has been  
> bothering me
> for a long time:
>
>  http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1969
>
> Being an important UI issue, we'd need a good discussion with the  
> design
> team. Unfortunately, we cannot always follow existing Gnome  
> conventions
> for keyboard shortcuts. For example, rename cannot be done with F2
> because it's already used for the buddy view.
>
> -----8<----------8<----------8<----------8<----------8<-----
>
> The Sugar UI should be 100% navigable without using a mouse.
>
> Besides being an accessibility issue, it's important for quick
> navigation, especially for users stuck with a broken XO touchpads.
>
> Some proposed changes:
>
> * Favorites view
>   * Search should be enabled in the shell view
>   * A caret should appear when the user starts to type
>   * Non-matching activities should be grayed out
>   * TAB should cycle through possible completions
>   * Cursor keys should cycle through the icons
>
> * Journal
>   * Cursor up/down should scroll a caret on the list
>   * ENTER should open the selected item (Linux/Windows style)
>   * Rename item: TBD (just type something?)
>   * Go to proprieties: TBD (cursor right?)
>   * Change volume: TBD
>   * Unmount all hot pluggable devices: TBD
>
> * Activities list view
>   * Should behave like the journal
>
> * Network Neighborhood
>   * Similar to favorites view
>
> * Toolbars
>   * There should be a key to move the focus to the toolbars
>     (alt-space?)
>
> -- 
>   // Bernie Innocenti - http://codewiz.org/
> \X/  Sugar Labs       - http://sugarlabs.org/
>