posit-dev / posit-dev/positron
minor UI nit: allow space bar to select option in modal dialog
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Description
For example, in the Clear All Environment Objects dialog:
For macOS native dialogs, Spacebar is used to select the button that has keyboard focus; Enter is used to select the default button. Should we match that behavior in our home-brewed dialogs as well?
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Research direction
Start by reproducing the Clear All Environment Objects modal dialog and inspecting how its focused buttons handle keyboard input. Confirm the existing Enter behavior, then make Space select the focused button while Enter continues to select the default button; verify this in the dialog and other home-brewed modal dialogs.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- desktop
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100