[Kde-accessibility] Re: [PATCH] select folder on timeout, after navigating to it

[Olaf Jan Schmidt]

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[Ingo Klöcker, Di 27.01. 2004 01:43:01]
> Highlighting of course takes no time. Opening, OTOH, can take
> some time.

That's the problem I meant. Would it be possible to do the opening in the 
background (maybe in a different thread) without blocking the UI?

> The question now is whether opening a folder which is chosen with the
> keyboard should
> a) happen automatically after a short timeout (after the folder was
> chosen)
> b) only happen after the user explicitely opens the folder

If you decide to use timeout, it must be configurable via GUI. But I would 
prefer to make this option uneccessary, because the only purpose of this 
option would be to work around the technical problem that loading folder 
content blocks the UI. It also seems impossible to come up with a good 
default time for the timeout, as we do not know _why_ people are using 
the keyboard instead of the mouse.

I suggest "a)" combined with new code that does not block the UI while 
opening a folder, and if this is impossible or too difficult, then "b)".

Olaf

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Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility Project
KDEAP co-maintainer, maintainer of http://accessibility.kde.org

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