Hi On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:22:04AM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > clone 386408 -1 -2 > retitle -1 xvnc4viewer: no keyboard focus in dialog windows > retitle -2 xvnc4viewer: allow command-line dialogs when started in console > severity -2 wishlist > thanks > > Hello! > > I'm retitleing the current bug because as I already explained the > problem is more general than the error dialog. Moreover, during the > discussion it's showed up the wish for a complete console behavior > when vncviewer is started in console and I think this is a separated > (but connected) bug, thus I'm creating it. Ola, I hope you don't > mind :-)
I do not mind at all. It is much better to have them separated. > On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:39:58 +0100, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 05:18:11PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote: > >> On Thu, 07 Sep 2006 22:07:28 +0200, Ola Lundqvist wrote: > >> > Unfortunatly I do not know how to fix that. Patch is appriciated. > >> [...] > >> > On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 02:20:48PM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote: > >> >> The 'Authentication failed' messagebox should have keyboard > >> >> focus on the OK button so I could dismiss it with just a > >> >> keypress. Currently the focus is not on the button. > >> > >> Well, the problem is not only with the error dialog, but also with > >> the IP dialog, i.e. when you start vncviewer with no options and it > >> asks for a VNC server to connect to. In this window, TAB doesn't > >> work and you're obliged to have a working mouse. Thus the title > >> should be changed to something like "xvnc4viewer: no keyboard focus > >> in dialog windows". > > Mmm, I found that the PasswordDialog shares the problem, too. I'll try > to find a solution for that: the focus should always be in the dialog > box and TAB should work, no matter if the mouse is available. > > This is the first bug (ID -1). That would be nice. > >> IMHO I see two solutions: > >> > >> 1) the best option will be to have all these dialogs similar to the > >> password one, i.e. in the console (whose behavior I don't remember > >> when it changed) > > > > I agree. It changed from vnc3 to vnc4. > > Thank you, I didn't know that. > > >> 2) while I prefer the console, I can understand someone could want > >> the X dialogs, thus a command-line option could be the best > >> solution > > > > I have made a patch so that the password dialog is on the command > > line. The same thing could be done for the other dialogs. > > This is the second bug (ID -2). > > OK, my fault: I didn't deeply checked the changelog.Debian.gz for > Debian-specific patches. Anyway, I think that your work (and the > future one to resolve this bug) should be included upstream, but this > is obviously IMHO. The current solution is to have a -PasswordDialog option. I actually think this option should be changed to -XDialogs instead and apply to all input methods. > >> I'm not a programmer myself, so patches are a bit of difficult. > >> Even if I'm not promising anything, I'll try to find spare time to > >> dig into the problem. > > > > If you want to take a look at it, then you can look at the changes > > that I made in order to change the password prompt. Similar will be > > done for the other ones. > > I'll preparing the patch, but be advised that this will probably take > a bit of time. Not a problem. I'll see if I can take a look at bug (-2) then. Regards, // Ola > Thx, bye, > Gismo / Luca -- --- Ola Lundqvist systemkonsult --- M Sc in IT Engineering ---- / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Annebergsslingan 37 \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] 654 65 KARLSTAD | | http://opalsys.net/ Mobile: +46 (0)70-332 1551 | \ gpg/f.p.: 7090 A92B 18FE 7994 0C36 4FE4 18A1 B1CF 0FE5 3DD9 / --------------------------------------------------------------- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
