[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #1852: Menubar navigation bugs
- From: "Ziusudra" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:28:33 -0000
#1852: Menubar navigation bugs
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Reporter: hma | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: assigned
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: User Interface | Version: R1/pre-alpha1
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Has a Patch: 0
Platform: All | Blocking:
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Comment (by Ziusudra):
Replying to [ticket:1852 hma]:
> Click a menu open (e.g. Edit) and leave the cursor on top of the menu.
> Now press arrow-key-left or arrow-key-right. This should open the
neighboring menu on left or right. It looks like it tries to do that, but
seems like the hovering cursor prevents it.
>
> Click a menu open and leave the cursor where it is.
> Now press arrow-key-down. The first item on the menu should get focus,
but the focus goes directly to the second item. Same happens with sub-
menus.
These two no longer happen.
> Click a menu open and leave the cursor where it is. Pressing esc-key
should close the menu, but it doesn't.
While the menu does close now, there are still issues with escape. See
#4594 and #4292
> Open a menu and leave the cursor anywhere on the opened menu. Using
arrow keys to navigate should work but it doesn't.
No longer happens. Although, if you use the keyboard to navigate to
another menu and then click the mouse button, the menu option that was
under the mouse pointer will be activated, even though it is now '''not'''
under the pointer. Created #6291
> Open a menu that has sub-menus e.g., Terminal Settings menu, Use arrow
keys to move focus to Window Size. A sub-menu should open automatically
but it doesn't. Pressing arrow-key-left opens the menu, but needing a key
press to open a sub-menu is inconsistent with how mouse navigation works.
>
> Automatically opening or not opening sub-menus could be a convention
decision, but Haiku's Deskbar design requires automatically opening sub-
menus. Otherwise keyboard navigating Deskbar becomes confusing (if sub-
menus are opened with arrow-key-right, but Desbar sub-menus open to the
left side of the menu).
I don't know about these two. If not automatically opening sub-menus, the
sub-menu indicator would have to be changed to point left and maybe be on
the left side of the menu. So, it would have to be known to which side the
sub-menu will open when the super-menu is displayed.
It should be possible to automatically display the sub-menu and leave the
selection at the super item. But, I don't think that at this point
pressing a key can abort a submenu; either that would be needed or a delay
before displaying the sub-menu. If the sub-menu opened to the left that
would change which key would be used to get to it.
Either way it would be considerable work to change something that I think
works well now.
> Open a menu and use arrow keys to navigate into a sub-menu. It is not
possible to get out of the sub-menu using only arrow keys (arrow-key-right
should move to the sub-menu and arrow-key-left should move back to the
parent menu).
This was fixed, see #5996.
> Open a menu that has a sub-menu and that is not the last menu on the
menubar e.g., StyleEdit Font menu. Use arrow-keys to navigate into the
sub-menu. Pressing arrow-key-left in the deepest sub-menu should move the
focus to the next menu on on the menubar. E.g., in StyleEdit, when focus
is on Font menu's Color sub-menu and user presses arrow-key-left, the
Document menu should open.
At first I didn't agree, but then I noticed that if you actually go into
the Font menu you can't get to the Document menu unless you first go to
the Edit menu. (Since all of the Font menu's items have sub-menus.) This
is doable.
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