Comment 1 Tommi Komulainen 2007-01-28 21:04:16 UTC

You can close a window by long press of the back/esc key.

Not having wrap-around in menus as suggested is explicitly specified as such,
similar to focus in treeviews. Not sure about the rationale.

(In reply to comment #1)
> You can close a window by long press of the back/esc key.
> 
> Not having wrap-around in menus as suggested is explicitly specified as such,
> similar to focus in treeviews. Not sure about the rationale.

Its good to know the long press function, but I guess for the rationale of this
issue, you've taken the given example wrongly. 

The suggested enhancement should be rational, where ever its about the any other
function even then the window_close.

Comment 3 Tommi Komulainen 2007-01-29 18:05:11 UTC

I was referring to our current UI design which is intended not to wrap around.
I
can not recall the rationale for that decision, though.

(In reply to comment #3)
> I was referring to our current UI design which is intended not to wrap around. I
> can not recall the rationale for that decision, though.

Many thanks for your followup, I hope you can look into further as if you find
this any useful. 

Best Regards,

Comment 5 Roope Rainisto 2007-01-30 11:16:05 UTC

Yes, this is currently intentional design to work like this, no wrapping in
menus. Meant to provide a safer and more controllable experience. 

The basic argument is that if the user long presses the scroll down key, he can
go to the end of the lists safely. 

This behaviour could certainly be improved, for instance by that scrolling like
this would stop at the end of the list, and then when pressing down again, it
would then wrap around to the first item. It's under consideration, but
unfortunately not in current plans to change, afaik. (Limited resources and all
that.)

(In reply to comment #5)
> Yes, this is currently intentional design to work like this, no wrapping in
> menus. Meant to provide a safer and more controllable experience. 
> 
> The basic argument is that if the user long presses the scroll down key, he can
> go to the end of the lists safely. 
> 
> This behaviour could certainly be improved, for instance by that scrolling like
> this would stop at the end of the list, and then when pressing down again, it
> would then wrap around to the first item. It's under consideration, but
> unfortunately not in current plans to change, afaik. (Limited resources and all
> that.)


Just to add a qoute Opera on N800 does the menu wraping, you might like to
experience such usage comfort with that before you are able to re-consider this
enhancement. 

Thanks

Comment 7 Roope Rainisto 2007-02-05 10:37:52 UTC

Thanks for the comment, we'll check that issue.

Comment 8 Frantisek Dufka 2007-03-13 11:32:06 UTC

I'd like to see thich changed too. It works like this on most other platforms
too (Windows, PalmOS). Even on my Nokia phone :-) I don't understand the
controllable and safer experience argument. How exactly it is safer or more
controllable? Can you provide use cases where it benefits to the user?

In fact it is less controllable for me because it is harder to get to items near
the end of the menu. By allowing it to wrap around you shorten the longest path
for accessing menu items to half.

Comment 9 Frantisek Dufka 2007-03-13 13:33:02 UTC

Just found this
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkSettings.html#GtkSettings--gtk-keynav-wrap-around
and when googling for gtk-keynav-wrap-around I see also some maemo pages so it
looks like it is already in process. Tried to put
gtk-keynav-wrap-around = 1
to /usr/share/themes/default/gtk-2.0/gtkrc on N800 but nothing changed so looks
like we're not there yet with current OS2007.

Comment 10 Roope Rainisto 2007-03-15 10:43:21 UTC

Setting priority to enhancement. Adding CC.

Comment 11 Frantisek Dufka 2007-04-24 22:16:44 UTC

(In reply to comment #9)
> Tried to put
> gtk-keynav-wrap-around = 1
> to /usr/share/themes/default/gtk-2.0/gtkrc on N800 but nothing changed so looks
> like we're not there yet with current OS2007.

Recently tried Sardine and it looks like this functionality is present in newer
gtk in Sardine and is turned on by default there. Let's hope it will make into
some production release.

Appears to have not been changed in the latest (4.2007.26-8) firmware.

Comment 13 Roope Rainisto 2008-12-03 17:07:46 UTC

Wontfix, the design will be improved, but wrap-around is not a part of it
still.

Comment 14 Quim Gil 2008-12-05 22:00:23 UTC

For those immediately unhappy, there are community hacks at
http://www.internettablettalk.com/forums/showthread.php?p=247130

Comment 15 Andre Klapper 2008-12-06 20:57:51 UTC

(getting rid of "User interaction", hence changing component - this is a gtk+
issue)