[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH] 259 Combobox keyboard support

[Petr Vobornik]

On 03/06/2013 01:37 PM, Petr Vobornik wrote:
> On 03/02/2013 08:38 PM, Endi Sukma Dewata wrote:
>> On 02/27/2013 06:54 AM, Petr Vobornik wrote:
>>> On 02/27/2013 01:50 AM, Endi Sukma Dewata wrote:
>
>>>
>>>> Another minor thing, if the search box is in focus, you can use the
>>>> Up/Down arrow to go to the list. However, from the list you cannot
>>>> use the Up/Down arrow to go back to the search box, you'd have to use
>>>> the Tab key. It's not really a problem, but it's not that consistent.
>>> Up/Down keys are natural way of changing value of a list - this part
>>> seems OK to me. So Up/Down arrow in search box might the problem, but
>>> I consider it a feature - saves some strokes. Also, User can always
>>> use tab to switch between search box and list.
>>
>> I'm OK with the Up/Down arrow in search box too, but if it's not
>> consistent people may think it's a bug.  So I'd suggest we make it such
>> that you can use Up/Down to go back to the search box.
>
> Up/Down doesn't just go to the list but it also changes the selected
> item in the list. So we might say that it's consistent - it changes
> selected item.
>
> I might agree that going from search box to list is wrong or misleading
> but I'm strongly against going back to search box using Up/Down keys. It
> would be redefining of implicit behavior of select element.
>
>>
>> All of the above are minor. The patch itself is ACKed.
>>
> Anyway, pushed to master
>
Pushed to ipa-3-1 (prerequisite of other patches).
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Petr Vobornik