Focus action pane by default in some cases

[bluss]

Let's consider focusing the action pane in a number of cases (instead of the primary object pane; the action pane is where actions appear, to the right of the primary object pane by default).

• When an action returns a result
  • Copy To.. (File Actions plugin)
  • Select in Kupfer (Higher-order Actions plugin)
• When files are posted
  • kupfer FILE ... from terminal or via dbus
  • Drop files on the kupfer starter icon
• When text is posted
  • Currently this lets you edit the text. I don't think I want to change this

Help Wanted Tag: because user input is wanted.

Tangential issues: Accelerator key to select each pane (primary object, action, indirect object)? Alt + 1, 2, 3 would be natural.

[khurshid-alam]

Can we use Right-Arrow-Key to switch to Action pane? I have to pres Tab (and then the down-arrow to list through all other actions) to switch....which is little annoying.

[bluss]

I don't think so, right arrow is already used to descend into things (into collections and directories). New in last version was at least that finally one can add a key shortcut to go to pane 1, 2, and 3, So you can use ctrl + 2 for example to switch to actions. Action accelerators PR #58 will probably help with some of the action switching pain too.

[khurshid-alam]

Ok. Let's carry on discussion on #58 page

[bluss]

Lol, I found a shortcut in the code I didn't know: Shift + Down is the same as Tab to switch to action pane, then Down. That's kind of what was asked for. (I'm not entirely sure when this was added; it was maybe part of “type with shift to search for actions” which was an unused experiment.)