ubuntu-phone team mailing list archive

[Zsombor Egri <zsombor.egri@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 10:43 AM, Luke Yelavich <luke.yelavich@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 09:58:13PM EST, Zsombor Egri wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 26, 2014 at 5:48 PM, David Marceau <
> uticdmarceau2007@xxxxxxxx>wrote:
> >
> > > Is there an api for setting the field navigation order for Ubuntu Touch
> > > phone?  Is there a way to navigate backward across fields using the
> > > default ubuntu touch phone's on-screen-keyboard(i.e. shift+return)?
> > > What if a field is not a textentry? How are we expected to navigate
> > > through the fields?  Is a touch action is the only way?
> > >
> >
> > There is none yet, however we have plans to introduce that feature in
> SDK.
> > When that will land, Tab/Shift+Tab will navigate between components in
> the
> > order those are listed in their parent's children list. Till that lands,
> > you can use the navigation methods Michal just gave you.
>
> Is this in a blueprint anywhere? I'm interested in the keyboard navigation
> experience as we move to a converged desktop, and I would be interested in
> looking at the keyboard navigation roadmap.
>

We have a bug logged for that [1], which incorporates the Tab/Shift+Tab
behaviour.

[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-ui-toolkit/+bug/1276797