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Bug 394404

Summary: [shell] too easy for command line to lose focus
Product: [ECD] Orion Reporter: Mark Macdonald <mamacdon>
Component: ClientAssignee: Grant Gayed <grant_gayed>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: P3    
Version: 2.0   
Target Milestone: 2.0 M2   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows 7   
Whiteboard:

Description Mark Macdonald CLA 2012-11-15 11:15:42 EST 
One of my peeves about the shell page is that it's easy for the command line to lose focus, and hard to focus it again.

1. Load the Shell page
2. Do some work in another window
3. Click on some whitespace in the Shell page to focus it again
4. Try to type a command -- fails because the command line doesn't have focus.
5. Try to Tab to the command line -- eventually this works, but it's annoying because you have to cycle through all the junk in the Orion top banner (Navigator, Sites. etc) before reaching the command line.

I understand there are accessibility concerns here, but the whole purpose of this page is to type stuff in the command line, and it's hard to get there.

I'd prefer if the command line took focus by default, and unfocusing it was an explicit action (eg. pressing ESC).