186681 - Linux: ALT + Left-click no longer opens save dialog

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Toolkit :: Downloads API, defect)

Description

[David P James]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021223 Phoenix/0.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.3a) Gecko/20021223 Phoenix/0.5

For quite some time the Linux version of Phoenix has ceased opening the save
dialog when ALT + Left-clicking on a link. Right-click and selecting Save Link
As still works however. I'll try to track down at which build this functionality
ceased to work.

This is Linux-only; equivalent Windows builds are functionning correctly.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Hold down ALT whilst left-clicking a link in Linux

Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
Phoenix should have opened the save dialog

Comment 1

[David P James]

I thought this worked with 0.4, but apparently not after I tested it just now.
I'm not going to be able to track down the failure hinge build as it would have
been sometime in October, 2002.

Comment 2

[Blake Ross]

I've heard a report that this is fixed now.  If not, reopen.

Comment 3

[David P James]

No, still no go in recent builds with a new profile. In KDE it does make a
window-opening noise however, which suggests that *something* is happening.

Comment 4

[Alfons Hoogervorst]

Oddly: Ctrl-Left does it for me

Comment 5

[Adam Roben]

Confirming bug still present in Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b)
Gecko/20030804 Mozilla Firebird/0.6.1

Comment 6

[Tibor Csögör]

Seems to be fixed in 0.8.

Comment 7

[Mailer Key]

not fixed in 8.0+  :(

Comment 8

[Ali Ebrahim]

reassign to new default assignee/qa

Comment 9

[Ali Ebrahim]

Alt+Left-Click is trapped by most window managers to move the window on Linux.
We can't use this combination in Firefox.

--> WONTFIX

I've opened bug 245015 for finding a replacement.