Bugzilla – Bug 417875
Application Browser: move focus
Last modified: 2012-05-15 16:59:36 UTC
As noted in bug 416544, when a group is selected, the keyboard focus doesn't change to the first item of that group. This is especially a problem for screen reading tools, because they use the keyboard focus to serve as a hint to proceed the reading from there.
Scott - can we fix this?
Created attachment 234523 [details] gnome-main-menu-bnc417875-focus-selected-group.diff Can you please try this patch?
I am reporting the bug in behalf of Darragh there in the CC list. I can try the patch to see if it fixes, but you'll have to direct me to the gnome-main-menu repository, as I'm pretty clueless about these things.
The AB is designed to use the filter first and foremost to search for desired items. It's much faster to type "browser" and get a filtered list of apps that fit this category such as "F-Spot photo browser", "Epiphany web browser", "Firefox web browser", "Nautilus file browser" or type "blue" to get a list of 3 (on my box) apps that deal with bluetooth stuff rather than manually hunting for them. Also if the filter has focus and you narrow the list down to 1 item then hitting enter launches that item. The point being that we want to maintain focus in the filter box as much as possible so that the user can start typing. With that in mind if the user clicks on a group I think the focus should stay in the filter box. However I agree in the case that the user is navigating with the keyboard and has already moved the focus out of the filter and onto the groups list then selecting a group should probably move the focus to the first item in the associated group. So I guess the patch would need to be changed to see if the focus is currently in the filter then don't change focus. Thoughts ? btw - gnome-main-menu code at "svn co http://svn.gnome.org/svn/gnome-main-menu/trunk"
Forwarding to 11.2
Sorry for the spam. I'm mass-closing gnome-main-menu/slab bugs: gnome-main-menu has gone unmaintained upstream because it's not usable in GNOME 3, and is not shipped since 12.1. I don't expect any maintenance updates for it in 11.4 either.