Layout Customizer Keyboard Interaction

[Gary Thompson]

Anastasia,

Yes, your summary and understanding of the desired behavior is correct.

There also was a thought that perhaps with keyboard interaction, when 
reaching the end of a column another move command in the direction of 
the end of the column would send the selected portlet to the top (or 
bottom, depending on direction) of the column.  The thought is that this 
would save keystrokes for a keyboard user.  It is indeterminate thus far 
if that is a good or bad idea.  For now, we are going forward without 
that behavior, where reaching the end of a column will not allow further 
movement in that direction.

These behaviors we hope will be validated (or invalidated) by user testing.

Gary

Anastasia Cheetham wrote:
>
> Ok, so here's a summary of my understanding of the desired behaviour. 
> We'll implement this, unless we're told that it's wrong :-)
>
> - If an attempt is made to move a portlet ahead of a locked portlet 
> (either by mouse or by keyboard), a warning message will appear. The 
> message will NOT appear at any other times e.g. below the last spot in 
> a column. So if the user has selected the last portlet in a column and 
> presses ctrl+down arrow, nothing will happen, and no warning will appear.
>
> - When the user drags a portlet over a locked portlet and the warning 
> message appears, the drop marker will remain wherever it happened to 
> last be, and if the user drops the portlet despite the warning, the 
> portlet will be moved to wherever the drop marker was.
>