Zotero 7: Esc focuses tab bar
Hitting
1. Open a PDF.
2. Hit
3. The left and right arrow keys now switches tabs.
This is using version 7.0.0-beta.58+2665090aa (64-bit) on Linux.
Esc
when viewing a PDF focuses the tab bar.1. Open a PDF.
2. Hit
Esc
.3. The left and right arrow keys now switches tabs.
This is using version 7.0.0-beta.58+2665090aa (64-bit) on Linux.
esc
put the focus on the tab (a blue border is visible around the tab).https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/454619/#Comment_454619
We'll fix it to not focus the tab bar when using Esc to close popups, etc.
Esc
for may things in the reader (dismissing the search dialog, dismissing an annotation popup, etc). IfEsc
now focuses the tab bar, that would be quite disruptive for me (and I presume some others as well).I typically use
Ctrl
+tab
to navigate between tabs. That doesn't prevent me from use the arrow keys or page up/down to navigate the PDF. However, the new behavior does, as it requires one to click inside the PDF before the arrow keys or page up/down to work.Perhaps I'm missing something here? How does one get focus back in the reader after hitting
Esc
?Ctrl
+tab
, orCtrl
+PgUp/PgDn
, orCtrl
+number
to switch tabs and still use the keyboard in the reader without having to explicitly switch focus between the two. I don't think I've encountered a case where the focus got "stuck" in the reader.Before, you could Shift-Tab to the tab bar from the library view, use left/right arrow keys to move between tabs, and press Enter or Tab to move focus to the reader content or toolbar, and keyboard focus would be stuck there, without the ability to Shift-Tab back to the tab bar, including the open-tabs menu and sync button. That's obviously a bug.
[Your favorite tab-switching key combo] still works fine and auto-focuses the reader content. This is useful if you 1) don't use those, 2) want to access the open-tabs menu or sync button, 3) want to move between tabs without selecting them (Cmd/Ctrl-left/right), 4) want tab titles read to you in your screen reader, or 5) just expect to be able to go back to the library view the way you came.
Reader has focus:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u7554954/p6hx5cw3zirza36ddd0v.png
Tab bar has focus:
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u7554954/p2316u3qaivtvnp1463o.png