202957 - Help key doesn't work on Mac OS X

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

i thought there'd be a bug on this, but i couldn't find one. (dup as needed)

the Help key on Mac OS X (i have an extended keyboard, fwiw) doesn't bring up
the help window. otoh, F1 (which i haven't reprogrammed) does bring up help.

this is a problem with both commercial and mozilla builds.

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

There's bug 88739, but that's for contextual help (Cmd-?)

Comment 2

[Samir Gehani]

adt: nsbeta1-

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

robin, should the reference to the Help key be removed for Mac OS in the online
docs, since it doesn't work? as an alternative, you could mention F1 (unless it
has been reprogrammed by the user).

Comment 4

[robinf]

I'll change the reference to F1 in the Keyboard Shortcuts help. 

Comment 5

[robinf]

Change to Keyboard Shortcuts help has been checked in to ns trunk. Mozilla help
to be updated when we next refresh the mozilla help content later this month.

Comment 6

[Ian Oeschger (gone)]

moving stuff over to an outside-the-firewall email for the time being, looking
for people to pick these Help and doc bugs up for me.

Comment 7

[R.J. Keller]

mass reassign of all of Ian Oeschger's bugs to me (R.J. Keller).

Comment 8

[Daniel Wang]

*** Bug 141811 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Brion Vibber]

The Keyboard Shortcuts page in the docs still says "Help Key". Neither the Help
nor F1 keys, nor the Cmd+? combination that seems to be standard in other Mac OS
X apps, brings up help.

Would recommend changing the shortcut key to Cmd+? to match the Apple Human
Interface Guidelines and changing the documentation to match.

Mac OS 10.3.3
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040502

Comment 10

[R.J. Keller]

Moving to new Help component owner.

Comment 11

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

I thought of making the Help key work in bug 88739, together  with Cmd+? (which
isn't a key combo for opening contextual help anymore).

Comment 12

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Fixed in bug 88739.