build 8.2-760, Read activity and ebook mode - how to make them work together?

[NoiseEHC]

Probably it would be the right time for 9.1 to finally make Sugar usable 
from the keyboard?
For example I did not see any activities using accelerators (Ctrl+Key or 
Alt+Key) or at least they are not showing it on the UI.
This problem that cursor keys are lost is widespread. In some activities 
I can press the down button several times until the focus moves from the 
toolbar to the scrollable area but on other activities it stays on the 
toolbar, so I have to open the XO from ebook mode, click and close back. 
It is just lame.
Here is a "design document":
How about that when the user keeps the Alt or Ctrl keys down, the XO 
shows him big hints about the available shortcut keys? It could show 
those shortcuts for the active toolbar page's buttons as well. That way 
beginner users (and people who were cursed by very bad memory like me) 
could use it as F1. (In fact it is similar how default XP shows 
accelerators only when Alt is pressed.) It is possible that this design 
is too similar to M$ ribbon controls but I think that being too similar 
is not a shame.

Gary C Martin wrote:
> On 18 Sep 2008, at 06:55, rihoward1 at gmail.com wrote:
>
>   
>> I have not seen any documentation on how to navigate in Read in  
>> ebook mode.
>> I tried the various game pad buttons but have not had much success  
>> in navigating.
>> I would like to be able to scroll from page to page in ebook mode,  
>> back and forth.
>> Have the the buttons been implemented for ebook mode? If so any  
>> hints out there on how to make this work?
>>     
>
> Testing Read-51 on an XO, the directional arrows pad scroll a pdf  
> about in steps (if you are zoomed in enough to have somewhere to  
> scroll to) – these buttons rotate to match the screen rotation (a nice  
> touch). The four other separate game buttons are, circle to page-up,  
> cross to page-down, square to zoom-in, tick to zoom-out.
>
> However... you must first put focus on the document (clicking on the  
> page, or hitting tab a couple of times will do it). Hmmm, maybe this  
> is worth a trac ticket as it's going to catch folks out.
>
> It's worth noting focus behaviour changes have happened in a bunch of  
> places (Journal being the obvious one), where navigation keys (cursor,  
> page up/down) will go to unintended*** toolbar buttons unless you  
> manually change focus to the scrollable area.
>
> ***for example I just accidentally set a pdf I have to share with my  
> neighboorhood while re-checking the game pad buttons. And as we all  
> know, for some bizarre reason you can never**** un-share an activity...
>
> ****actually there is UI a cheat/hack. Copy the offending activity to  
> the clipboard using Journal, then use the clipboard to keep it in the  
> Journal again. The new copy will be private, and you can just delete  
> the other.
>
> --Gary
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