[Design][Chandler][Sum] focus in the sidebar

Philippe Bossut pbossut at osafoundation.org
Fri Jan 13 11:49:57 PST 2006


John Anderson wrote:

> Philippe Bossut wrote:
>
>> Mimi Yin wrote:
>>
>>> 1. Single click in the sidebar does NOT shift keyboard focus to the  
>>> sidebar
>>> 2. Click and then click again to shift focus to the sidebar AND/OR
>>
> I presume that you mean clicking on a selected item in the sidebar, 
> since clicking an unselected item in the sidebar changes the 
> selection. Also, I presume that you don't mean double click since 
> that's used to edit the name of the collection.

That's what I assumed too for it to make sense. I'm pretty sure that's 
what Mimi intended also.

>>> 3. Use the Tab key AND/OR
>>
> Suppose a field in the detail view has the focus and you hit tab. It 
> should go to the next field in the detail view, right? So under what 
> circumstances does Tab move the focus to the sidebar?

When you're at the end of a table, tab (or shift-tab) should move the 
focus to the next area (previous in the case of shift-tab) so that the 
entire UI can be navigated through using the keyboard. This is described 
in the Navigation section of this doc:
    http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Journal/AEBehavior3320

It's not implemented yet though.

>>> 4. Click on sharing or info (if the collection isn't shared) icon 
>>> AND/OR
>>> 5. Select menu item: Collection>>View details
>>
> Does this show information about the collection in the summary/detail 
> location? 

Indeed it does. That's where the discussion started (see: 
https://bugzilla.osafoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2127).

Cheers,
- Philippe


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