Accessibility of gnome-controlcenter?
Henrik Nilsen Omma
henrik at ubuntu.com
Sun Jan 14 21:16:20 GMT 2007
Al Puzzuoli wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I've noticed that by default in Feisty, the administration menu seems to be
> gone, and all of the functions it contained can now be accessed via the
> gnome-control-center. My concern is that unless I'm missing something,
> there doesn't seem to be a way to navigate the control-center UI efficiently
> via the keyboard. Granted, it is possible to tab to, and then press enter
> on each function's corresponding button; However, I don't see any way of
> quickly jumping to a desired function. As an example, under administration,
> if I wanted to get to the sound preferences, I could do so relatively
> quickly by pressing S a couple of times. Are there plans to implement first
> letter navigation into the control-center's UI? If this isn't going to
> happen any time soon, is there an option somewhere to easily restore the
> administration menu?
>
The new control centre resembles the control panel in Windows, which
does respond to first-letter-pressing as you describe. I think we should
pursue that option. Only trouble is that the items are sorted by
category first, then alphabetically (is that a problem? the selection
could skip through categories).
Henrik
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