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Bug 379587

Summary: Navigator: allow twistie toggle using arrow keys
Product: [ECD] Orion Reporter: Mark Macdonald <mamacdon>
Component: ClientAssignee: libing wang <libingw>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3 CC: libingw
Version: 0.5   
Target Milestone: 0.5 M2   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Whiteboard:

Description Mark Macdonald CLA 2012-05-15 13:32:00 EDT 
Using the current code in HEAD, I see that the navigator twisties are toggled by focusing them and pressing Enter.

It used to be possible to toggle them with the Right/LeftArrow keys, which is much faster for navigating through a folder hierarchy. 

I'd like to get the old behavior back.
Comment 1 John Arthorne CLA 2012-05-15 13:52:54 EDT 
I guess the issue is this is now a grid and left/right are used to navigate between cells. I agree that left/right to expand/collapse trees was much nicer and consistent with native keyboard tree behaviour (at least on Windows).
Comment 2 Susan McCourt CLA 2012-05-15 16:42:49 EDT 
Can we do something like:

- if there is a true grid (more than just a twistie and a link)...then right arrow and left arrow navigates as is, and ctrl-Right/ctrl-left will operate the twisties.

- if there is only a twistie and a link (no grid) then left and right should operate the twisties 

Part of the problem right now is that nav was a grid (it had the chevron menu that had to be cursored to) when he put the model in.  I have since pulled out the chevron menu.  So there's really no reason to act like a grid in the nav case.