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What comes to mind is someone with a tremor that is unable to use classic pointing devices and might have better luck using tab/arrow-key navigation to move thr
by dumbo-octopus 3y ago
What comes to mind is someone with a tremor that is unable to use classic pointing devices and might have better luck using tab/arrow-key navigation to move through the buttons/menus/etc. From my cursory examination of the product I don't see much support for keyboard navigation, though as a professional tool I'm sure there's a plethora of keyboard shortcuts that one could learn.
- yjftsjthsd-h 3y agoGood point, I'd never noticed that before - menus seem fine once you get them open, but I can't find a way to open any menu without clicking, and ex. the preferences pane does seem completely impossible to navigate via keyboard. So yes, I agree that that appears a downside to their own toolkit.
- dumbo-octopus 3y agoFWIW you need to implement that yourself with basically any advanced enough toolkit. Even in HTML-land, any list widget worth it's salt is handling keystrokes itself.
- panzi 3y agoThough I think all/pretty much all menu items can be accessed by pressing space and then typing the name of it. (If you use the setting space for command search.) There will be an auto completion list and it remembers the last action. So that is even better than what many other GUI applications do, where you have to search for ages in deeply nested menus for the action that you know how it is named, but don't know where the hell it is hidden. Quite frankly every program should have that feature.