Comment 6 for bug 988651

To clarify, I really like to idea of the floating menu for visual
feedback! I only suggested omitting the menu as a first step, because
I was assuming it might be easier to implement.

On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Jaap Karssenberg
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> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 8:52 PM, Burkhard Ritter
> <email address hidden> wrote:
>> For simpler key combos (and possibly as a first step) a menu is probably
>> not necessary. For example, for something like <ctrl><g> - <i>,
>> <ctrl><g> - <c> and so on.
>
> Well, you expect users to remember those shortcuts - but people tend
> to be better at this with visual feedback.
>
> E.g. a popup menu with the "i" in "index" underlined will prompt
> people to press "i".
>
> Implementation wise it is also easier - we can't really handle multi
> key combo sequences. First key combo will popup the menu, the menu
> widget will recieve the next key press and handle it before returning
> focus to the main window.
>
> -- Jaap
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> Title:
> Advanced keyboard navigation for widgets (ToC, index, pages, etc.)
>
> Status in Zim desktop wiki:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> With the Table of Contens plugin (ToC) enabled and the plugin
> configuration option "Show ToC as floating widget instead of in side
> pane" disabled, it would be nice to be able to switch (cycle) between
> the main content page, the index and the ToC pane with a hotkey. Maybe
> <Ctrl><Space> could be reused for this; as it is now <Ctrl><Space>
> only switches focus between the main content page and the index (the
> option "Use <Ctrl><Space> to switch to the side pane" has to be
> enabled).
>
> This is zim 0.56 on OS X 10.6.8.
> Gtk version is (2, 24, 10)
> Pygtk version is (2, 22, 0)
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