MATE panel and keyboard focus
Hello. I'm part of Hypra, a French team working on making debian
accessible to blind and low-vision users. Our work is based on MATE and
Compiz/Emerald.
As you may guess, our use case requires GUI elements to be reachable
using the keyboard only, without any pointer depending of visual
feedback. The information in doc/panel-keynav.txt seems very handy, but
I suppose it hasn't been checked for some time. The code is there, but
I don't see keybindings working on either marco or compiz.
Of course I understand that the focus issue is quite hairy, and that the
panel is a special case. Using marco I'm able to focus on a panel
(particularly if it's only one: having a top and a bottom panel makes it
hard to deterministically select one with Ctrl+Alt+Tab) and then proceed
with keybindings; using compiz I've yet to find a way.
I'm playing with mate-panel from git; in order to use it I recompiled
mate-desktop and caja as well, plus libmate-desktop; if I remember
correctly that was everything needed to build mate-panel on debian sid.
If you have any suggestions please let me know. We want to contribute
upstream back to the community every time it's possible as soon as
posisble, so I'll take care not to step on your toes.
Best regards,
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Luca Saiu
Hypra team (Accessible website in construction)
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