Bug 676811 - no keyboard accessibility in the gnome-shell
Summary: no keyboard accessibility in the gnome-shell
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gnome-shell
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Owen Taylor
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-11 11:20 UTC by Thomas Meyer
Modified: 2011-02-11 15:46 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-02-11 15:46:52 UTC
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Description Thomas Meyer 2011-02-11 11:20:25 UTC
Description of problem:
Enter the gnome-shell by pressing Alt+F1.
Try to do something by only using the keyboard now.
The TAB key seems to do nothing.

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Comment 1 Thomas Meyer 2011-02-11 11:24:01 UTC
okay, in gnome shell, when you just start to write something the search field is activated and the search starts.
It would be better to activate/highlight the search field and place the cursor in it after pressing Alt+F1 so the user can see what's going on!

Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2011-02-11 15:46:52 UTC
Not the right forum for discussing GNOME shell design. Not having a blinking cursor or other strong indication of entry focus is however intentional to let the user focus more generally on what's in the overview. There are various upstream bugs related to adding more generic keynav in the overview though we expect search to be the primary way of interacting with gnome shell.

Note that the Super (the "logo key" - the windows key on most keyboards) also is bound by default to take you to the overview.


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