On Wed, 2020-08-12 at 19:37 +0200, Petr Pařízek wrote: > Richard wrote: > > > I Tab and Shift-Tab did do something but I couldn't > > figure out how to navigate off the list of files already present > in a > > directory. > > There are two ways. The most widely used one is that I press the > Backspace key (right, I forgot to mention this) to move one level up > in > the directory structure and I press Enter to move one level down > when > the cursor is pointing at the corresponding directory name. > The other way is (even though I don't use this too much) that > usually > there's often an expandable field called "Look in" which can be > manipulated by the cursor keys -- i.e. it's like a treeview where > the > left cursor key either closes the current "nesting level" or goes > one > level higher if the item is already closed, the right cursor key > either > opens an item or goes to the next lower nesting level if the item is > already open, and the uppor or lower cursor keys move around items > that > are on the same level. But even when the focus is on such a field, > Backspace or Enter are usually still available. > > > Also, the cursor keys are very often used to alter the setting of > what's > usually called something like "Save as file type:". > > > > the intent of the Gtk widget library would be that it should be > > navigable using expected keystrokes I'm pretty sure. > > Well, the thing is, I'm talking about the keystrokes usually used in > Windows applications and I'm absolutely unaware how it is in Linux. > So I > can't comment on what the GTK has or doesn't have on offer because > if > GTK is something designed by Linux users and possibly for Linux > users,
Gtk will target the same keyboard shortcut expectations I'm sure. Can you save a Denemo score using just the PC keyboard? - I've just tried but backspace doesn't seem to do anything. I'm not sure I've ever seen these keypresses documented anywhere... Richard
