KComboBox focus

[Benoit Walter]

On Thursday 18 September 2003 22:39, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> On September 18, 2003 03:10 pm, Benoit Walter wrote:
> > The problem is that it is not convenient to switch between
> > styles/decorations/ backgrounds without keyboard focus. I know the
> > QComboBox behaves as you described, I just think it is much more
> > convenient to use if you get the focus after clicking on it.
> > Most of the time, you select a background image from the combo box, then
> > you navigate between backgrounds using the arrows.
> > If a click focus really bothers for a combo box that is not editable,
> > what about changing the focus policy of those widgets directly in the
> > control center modules ?
>
> If you want to use the keyboard that badly then why aren't you just tabbing
> to the combobox in the first place?
>
> Otherwise, if you clicked on the combo box with the mouse, then you are
> obviously navigating using a mouse, and can thus change the combobox by
> dragging your mousewheel much faster than you could by clicking it then
> using the keyboard.
>
> I fail to see why this is a big problem.

Not everyone has a mousewheel (laptop)...