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[Jeremy Nickurak <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 13:31, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  On 09/11/10 20:07, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 12:21, Mark Shuttleworth <mark@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>  I don't think we have a comprehensive horizontal-nav guideline, yet. I
>> do think we have a policy that cases where horizontal behaviour is
>> introduced need to be carefully thought through and documented - I thought
>> for example that the Sound Menu specified the following behaviour for the
>> playback controls: moving down or up to the playback controls should place
>> the visible focus on the play button, where space would pause/play, and
>> left/right would trigger previous/next returning the focus immediately to
>> the play button.
>>
>
>  Really? Keyboard controls on hovering on a menu item would seem to have
> really really low discoverability. I never would have imagined to try such a
> thing.
>
> No, this is keyboard navigation, nothing to do with mouse hover.
>

Aren't right/left supposed to switch between menus?

(sorry, CC'ing ayatanna again, this lack of Reply-To on launchpad mailing
lists hits me every time)


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