[Sugar-devel] Keyboard navigability of the Sugar UI

[Gonzalo Odiard]

I would like to work with 0.84 and port to 0.90.
I have read your bug #1969 and contacted a blind programmer to check the
selected keys.
We can write in the wiki a plan and work together with small patches.

Gonzalo


On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 5:08 PM, Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>wrote:

> El Wed, 28-04-2010 a las 17:14 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso escribió:
> > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 16:25, 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:
> >
> > There's interest from the people at La Rioja on this, how can we agree
> > on a plan together and resource it?
> >
> > http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/olpc-sur/2010-April/005849.html
>
>
> Very good, indeed!
>
> Gonzalo, would you and your team like to take over this task for the
> 0.90 release cycle?
>
> In case you missed the original post of this thread:
>
> --------- Mensaje reenviado --------
> De: Bernie Innocenti <bernie at codewiz.org>
> Para: Sugar Devel <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Cc: Christian Marc Schmidt <christianmarc at gmail.com>, Eben Eliason <
> eben.eliason at gmail.com>
> Asunto: [Sugar-devel] Keyboard navigability of the Sugar UI
> Fecha: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:25:16 -0400
>
> 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/
>
>


-- 
Gonzalo Odiard
Responsable de Desarrollo
Sistemas Australes
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