[Kde-hci] What's This help -> Once more ;-)

[Olaf Jan Schmidt]

Hi Ellen!

In the meantime I have had some time to think about the most consistent way 
for the keyboard focus.

In KDE (and in all other systems that I know of) the tab sequence never leaves 
the window. In some cases, it is even limited to a part of the window (e.g. 
Kontact). Whenever several windows are involved, they are either all added to 
the window list as full windows, or only one of the windows accepts keyboard 
focus (e.g. a dialog that blocks the parent window, or a floating toolbar 
that doesn't accept keyboard focus). For this reason I suggest that the WT 
windows should be behave like normal windows, maybe with a changed look, and 
appear in the window list. The focus can then be moved between the windows by 
pressing Alt+Tab.

To be consistent with the rest of KDE, the operator window should behave like 
other floating toolbars and not accept keyboard focus (unless we define a 
general shortcut for this in KDE, which seems like a good idea to me). To 
make all actions keyboard reachable, they should be added to the context menu 
of all tips.

Usually, a normal keypress does change the focus in another window or move the 
focus into another window (unless it closes the current window), so I suggest 
the following for Escape:

- Focus on a Tip: Tips disappear. Focus moves back to where it was in the 
parent window before the WT mode was activated.

- Focus on a WT window: WT window is closed. Tips remain. Focus moves back to 
the currently focused tip in the parent window.

> --> argh, I just realised that my OOo file is broken :-|

Oh dear.

> hopefully kword can import the pdf...

Did you have luck?

Olaf

-- 
Olaf Jan Schmidt, KDE Accessibility co-maintainer, open standards 
accessibility networker, Protestant theology student and webmaster of 
http://accessibility.kde.org/ and http://www.amen-online.de/