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Bug 126475 - Hardly usable Recent Folder combobox using just a keyboard
Summary: Hardly usable Recent Folder combobox using just a keyboard
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: contrib
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Quick Filechooser (show other bugs)
Version: 6.x
Hardware: All All
: P3 blocker (vote)
Assignee: Jesse Glick
URL:
Keywords: A11Y
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2008-02-01 09:48 UTC by Martin Krauskopf
Modified: 2009-02-19 19:52 UTC (History)
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Description Martin Krauskopf 2008-02-01 09:48:34 UTC 
Try to press Alt-R and then try to select with keyboard (no mouse) the folder you want. Every time, some folder in the
combobox is selected, the combobox is closed and the folder is immediately applied. So the combobox is more or less
unusable with a keyboard, just with mouse. Folder should be applied when Enter is hit.
Comment 1 Jesse Glick 2008-02-01 16:26:33 UTC 
You can access recent folders using the up/down arrow keys, no need to select the combobox.
Comment 2 Martin Krauskopf 2008-02-01 16:38:21 UTC 
Sure, you can. But when you have 20 items in the combobox, from which some are expensive to load (like NetBeans
repositories root), it losts usability and I end up expanding combobox too see more - eight; items at once.
Comment 3 Jesse Glick 2009-02-19 19:52:42 UTC 
Unfortunately not easy to fix; generally considered to be a bug in Swing. (Visible many other places, e.g. dropdowns in
project Properties dialogs.) There is a client property which seems to work (at least for navigation using Up/Down, not
Page Up/Down); tested on Ocean, GTK, XP. release65/contrib #fc48f717a565