Re: [MiNT] Keyboard navigation [was Re: Task manager]

["Jean-François Lemaire" <jflemaire@skynet.be>]

On Saturday 15 May 2010 09:31:15 Helmut Karlowski wrote:
> Am 15.05.2010, 09:17 Uhr, schrieb David Gálvez <dgalvez75@gmail.com>:
> > Now that some talking about keyboard navigation is going on,
> >
> > A couple years ago we had a discussion in Windom mailing list about
> > keyboard navigation and xaaes, the conclusion was that xaaes shouldn't
> > draw anything on application forms without being request by the same
> > application to do so.

I quite frankly find this ridiculous. This would mean that NONE of the 
currently available applications would display an indication of where the 
focus is.
 
> I haven't read it yet, but I am very sure that I want xaaes behave the way
> it does now. There are too many clean normal programmed apps (wihout any
> fancy window/dialog-libs, just plain GEM) that profit from it. The
> "simple" apps are often better usable now than all those awesome
> flying-window-dialog-apps. Example: pure-c-compiler-dialog is completely
> keyboard-controllable.
> 
> And I haven't yet a proof that xaaes hurts any of these.
 
I completely agree with you..

JFL
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Jean-François Lemaire