Keyboard navigability of the Sugar UI

[bernie]

The Sugar UI should be 100% navigable without using a mouse.

Besides being an accessibility issue, it's important for quick navigation, especially for users stuck with a broken XO touchpads.

Some proposed changes:

• Favorites view
  • Search should be enabled in the shell view
  • A caret should appear when the user starts to type
  • Non-matching activities should be grayed out
  • TAB should cycle through possible completions
  • Cursor keys should cycle through the icons

• Journal
  • Cursor up/down should scroll a caret on the list
  • ENTER should open the selected item (Linux/Windows style)
  • Rename item: TBD (just type something?)
  • Go to proprieties: TBD (cursor right?)
  • Change volume: TBD
  • Unmount all hot pluggable devices: TBD

• Activities list view
  • Should behave like the journal

• Network Neighborhood
  • Similar to favorites view

• Toolbars
  • There should be a key to move the focus to the toolbars (Alt-space?)

Partial fixes for this bug would be very welcome.

[bernie]

Gonzalo of Sugar Labs argentina is interested in working on this bug.

[dnarvaez]

Please open specific bugs about keyboard features you would like to see. As such a generic bug it's never going to happen. I also suspect we don't have resources for this work these anyway. So please send patches instead of tickets :)