214922 - Ctrl+letter should not trigger accesskey in menu

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, defect)

Description

[Aaron Leventhal]

Not sure if there is a comparable problem on other platforms, but there probably is.

To repro:
Enter a menu but don't select a command yet(for example, just type alt to enter
the menu bar or bring up a context menu)
Hit Ctrl+letter where the letter is an underlined a accesskey in the menu
The menu item activates, but it shouldn't

For example, if you hit ctrl+w, the window should close, not go to the _W_indow
menu. Unmofidifed keys shouldn't activate accesskeys in menus while in a menu.

Comment 1

[[e-mail]]

Alt (or whatever your menu pref is) and Shift modifiers are probably OK.

Comment 2

[Oliver Klee]

Bug 232352 and bug 232355 may be related.

Comment 3

[Oliver Klee]

After deleting dist/bin and recompiling, bug 232352 and bug 232355 where solved.
Aaron, could you try whether this helps in your case, too?

On a Linux CVS build from today, CTRL+W doesn't activate the Windows menu (when
another menu is open), but it still selects the menu item with the W shortcut
(if there is any).

Comment 4

[Aaron Leventhal]

Should be pretty easy to fix somwehere in layout/xul/base/src

Comment 5

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** Bug 275017 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

This is biting a few users who are focusing bookmarks in the toolbar by right clicking and then trying to hit ctrl+t to open them in a new tab (the t passes through to cut).

Comment 7

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.