Hi John,

If you’re on Windows or GTK, I’d appreciate it if you could try out the Net 
Selector (in Track & Via Properties or Pad Properties) from the keyboard and 
tell me how it goes.  It’s all good on OSX, but that’s the only machine I have.

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 10 Oct 2018, at 10:16, John Beard <john.j.be...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I do (try to) use most dialogs with the keyboard (limited sensation in
> my fingers make mice and especially touchpads less useful to me).
> 
> Correct handling of focus, tab-traversal and so on is also important
> for accessibility reasons, as well as being indicative of a coherent
> UI in general. It's pretty annoying to be able to fill in almost all
> of a dialog, but have controls fail to work at random.
> 
> Especially a dialog with multiple fields, you don't want to force
> users to a "hover+key to invoke, type, move mouse, click, type, enter"
> workflow, when you could have a "hover+key, type, tab, type, enter"
> workflow - you forced a hand to the mouse AND back which should be
> entirely avoidable.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> John
> On Tue, Oct 9, 2018 at 7:59 PM Eeli Kaikkonen <eeli.kaikko...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ti 9. lokak. 2018 klo 17.05 Jeff Young (j...@rokeby.ie) kirjoitti:
>>> 
>>> I think you had the latest; the GAL branch should have been up-to-date as 
>>> well.
>>> 
>>> I’ve found a likely cause of the single-character-filter issue and pushed a 
>>> “fix”.
>> 
>> 
>> It works with the latest master (808a7d94833f1a). The remaining issues are 
>> focus and selection related. I think accepting the selected net from the 
>> list is more important because when the user uses filtering (s)he already 
>> uses the keyboard. Selecting and opening the combobox with keyboard is 
>> probably rare, I don't know if anyone wants to use KiCad's dialogs (other 
>> than text and numbers) with keyboard. After all ECAD must be used with a 
>> pointer device anyways.
>> 
>> Eeli Kaikkonen
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