[BRLTTY] Re: tmsnc

[Dave Mielke]

I sent a note to the tmsnc maintainer, and he replied that, in a few days when
he gets back home, he'll have a look at the cursor placement problems. I've
made the following suggestions to him:

The cursor should be placed in a meaningful position when window selection is
made via the tab key.

It's not obvious that the Enter key needs to be pressed to open the toolbar
menus so it'd be nice if each menu would open automatically when selected.

There should be a different Alt+ shortcut for each item in the toolbar, so
Alt+f should go to Files, Alt+a should go to Actions, Alt+c should go to
Contacts, and Alt+s should go to Status.

When in a menu, the first letter of its name (without the Alt key) should be a
shortcut for selecting it, e.g. when in the Files menu the letter q should be a
shortcut for Quit.

While all the fore-going would be equally useful for sighted users, my last
suggestion illustrates where there's sometimes a difference so I don't know
what he'll do with it. When in a menu, moving to the right or left, for those
of us partial single line viewers, should go back up to the header rather than
to whichever item in the adjacent menu happens to be on the same line.

I hope, with so many suggestions at one time, he won't feel overloaded. :-)

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