Issue 77368 - Insert bibliographic entry: no primary focus
Summary: Insert bibliographic entry: no primary focus
Status: CONFIRMED
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Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.2
Hardware: All All
: P3 Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2007-05-15 01:49 UTC by jdpipe
Modified: 2017-05-20 11:22 UTC (History)
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Description jdpipe 2007-05-15 01:49:24 UTC
Hi there

I think that there might be some possible improvements to the way that
bibliographic entries work in terms of keyboard usability.

Firstly, it's funny that the 'insert' thing for citations is Alt-I-X-B. To me it
is unintuitive that citations are listed under 'indexes and tables'. In my mind,
the act of inserting a citation is more related to inserting a cross-reference,
and should be in the top-level menu.

Secondly, when the bibliographic entry dialog comes up, there is no keyboard
focus in that dialog. For ease of use, the 'short name' dropdown should have the
focus, such that I can just type the first few characters of the reference name
then press enter.

It seems wrong that the 'short name' drop-down is position *below* the author
and title in this dialog, when in fact the author and title change only as a
result of changing the selected short name. They should be underneath.

I think that by default, the enter key should insert a reference *and* close the
dialog. Mostly one wishes to insert a single citation, so although this dialog
has the ability to insert multiple entries at once, this should not be the
default behaviour. Perhaps the buttons could say 'Insert', 'Insert + Close',
'Cancel', with the second one bound to the 'enter' key.

Cheers
JP
Comment 1 michael.ruess 2007-05-15 06:48:49 UTC
Reassigned to ES.
Comment 2 eric.savary 2007-05-15 10:46:34 UTC
Please only report 1 problem per issue.

The dialog should get a focus in the Short Name listbox when opening, yes.

Only Inserting and not Insert+Close allows to travel through the document
leaving the dialog opened to insert more than 1 entry. The dialog can be left
using Esc when done. 
Comment 3 eric.savary 2007-05-15 10:47:04 UTC
The dialog should get a focus in the Short Name listbox when opening.
Comment 4 Marcus 2017-05-20 11:22:03 UTC
Reset assigne to the default "issues@openoffice.apache.org".