Description of problem: Everyone loves graphical installs Not everyone has a mouse and it seems key navigation in graphical anaconda can be confusing to some people. But... the shift+numlock mode allows for people to use the numpad to direct the mouse motion. I need to read up on which key combination does selection and focus, but mharris assures me the numpad mouse nav and selection is a oft-overlooked feature of X and is available. So in future releases of anaconda i would hope that this mode could be activated or at least communicated to the users when they choose graphical mode without a mouse. In the meantime however, a short note about the numpad mouse navigation mode in the release notes would be useful. If requested, I can spend a little time sometime in the next week writing a mock up short paragraph with the details of using the mousenav mode. -jef
Jef -- If you want to take a crack at it, that would be super...
Google is so my friend: http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/movecursor.html shift+numlock to enter/exit numpad mouse mode keys 1-9 excluding key 5 are for navigation in mouse movement key 5 is a "CLICK" and defaults to right-handed mouse left-click key 5 twice is a double click select which mouse button key 5 actually represents with the / * - numpad keys, / would be left mouse button on right handed mouse * middle button - would be right mouse button on right handed mouse Notes: There is no feedback as to if you are in numpad navigation mode or not. And there is no feedback as to which mousebutton is selected for key 5 "Click" operation. So some care will have to be taken when using this mode, until anaconda can be taught to give some feedback when this mode is active. Leads me to wonder if gnome has visual notification of this mode in its roadmap.... -jef
Jef -- Just finished talking with some of the developers, and the consensus is that this isn't good release notes material. The issues seem to be that the feature is not new, is not very easy to use successfully (as you noted, visual feedback is lacking), and it flat out doesn't work on some systems (laptops, for example). So I'm going to pass on this one...