182782 - Auto-repeat not ignored for shortcuts

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Accessibility, defect)

Description

[Stephane Moureau]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021128 Chimera/0.6+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021128 Chimera/0.6+

http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Essentials/AquaHIGuidelines/AHIGUserInput/Type_Ahead__Auto_Repeat.html
When a character key is held down for a certain amount of time, it starts
repeating automatically. The user can make adjustments to this feature, called
auto-repeat, in Keyboard preferences.

An application can tell whether keystrokes are generated by auto-repeat or by
the same key being pressed numerous times. Your application can disregard
auto-repeat keystrokes; it should IGNORE them in keyboard equivalents.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open a New Window
2. Hold down Cmd-T
Actual Results:  
Non stop (<17) creation of Tabs.

Expected Results:  
Ignore the auto-repeat.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

This also happens opening new windows in Chimera/2002112604. Both new windows
and tabs continuously open in FizzillaMach/2002112607 as well. But, new windows
also continuously open in Apple's own TextEdit, though not in the Finder.

Comment 2

[S Woodside]

I guess that since the HIG says "Your application can disregard auto-repeat
keystrokes; it should ignore them in keyboard equivalents." that chimera should
ignore them.

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

Okay, I'll confirm this. These key commands need to not auto-repeat in either
Chimera or Mozilla.

Comment 4

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Command keys auto-repeat in all Cocoa apps that I tried (e.g. iCal). This is a
Cocoa problem, not our problem.

Comment 5

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

v wf.