On 1 Jan 2012, at 11:25, Bill Cox wrote: > Combo boxes in Gnome are difficult to navigate by keyboard. There's a > simple bug report about it here: > > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=643853 > > I've always found this issue a minor inconvenience, but for blind > users using Orca, it's a much bigger deal, since they cannot grab the > scroll bar on a combo box and quickly find the item they want, and > instead have to arrow down through the whole list. > > Is there any chance keyboard navigation of combo boxes could be improved?
This behaviour was actually recommended in one of the many gtk keynav bug reports I filed back in 2001: <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53579> Tis a little disappointing that it still hasn't been fixed over a decade later, especially as (or perhaps because) the bug was marked resolved/fixed... Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Interaction Designer Oracle Corporation Ireland mailto:calum.ben...@oracle.com Solaris Desktop & Applications http://blogs.oracle.com/calum +353 1 803 3807 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Oracle Corp. _______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
