Bug#476671: gnome-terminal: tabbar should not have keyboard focus
Marius Mikucionis
mmikucionis at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 11:13:40 UTC 2008
Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.22.0-1
Severity: minor
I sometimes use mouse to switch between windows, and if I click on
a tab in gnome-terminal the tab gets keyboard focus, i.e. everything I type
goes to the tab and the terminal itself does not get anything -- this gives
an impression that the terminal is frozen.
One has to look very closely to find out that the terminal cursor is different,
i.e. the keyboard focus is not on the terminal, and then discover that it is
on the tab.
This is confusing to say the least (tab is not an input field, and one does
not expect to be able to type anything there), moreover the keystrokes get lost
on the tab and it takes time to grab the mouse again, wigle it to terminal and
then move hand back to keyboard and retype the lost keystrokes.
In short, my point is that there is nothing to type onto the tab/tabbar
therefore user should not be encouraged to type anything there and tabs
should not get/have the keyboard focus in the first place.
Situation may be different for other applications where user has an oportunity
to switch between tabs, but terminal is a keyboard intensive application and
GUI consistent keyboard shortcuts (like TAB key) do not transfer the focus
back to tabbar, so the left/right arrow functionality on gnome-terminal tabbar
is lost anyway.
Best regards,
Marius
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.24.2-d630 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=lt_LT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=lt_LT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii gnome-control-center 1:2.22.0-2 utilities to configure the GNOME d
ii gnome-terminal-data 2.22.0-1 Data files for the GNOME terminal
ii libatk1.0-0 1.20.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbonobo2-0 2.22.0-1 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libc6 2.7-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgconf2-4 2.22.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libglade2-0 1:2.6.2-1 library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.1-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomeui-0 2.20.1.1-1 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.12.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii liborbit2 1:2.14.12-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.20.2-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libstartup-notification0 0.9-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libvte9 1:0.16.13-1 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+
ii libx11-6 2:1.0.3-7 X11 client-side library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.4-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-16 A free electronic cataloging syste
Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii yelp 2.20.0-2 Help browser for GNOME 2
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