Closed Bug 253864 Opened 20 years ago Closed 20 years ago

Ctrl+A for Select All (GNOME HIG)

Categories

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
enhancement
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 251081

People

(Reporter: pantsgolem, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040727 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040727 Firefox/0.9.1+

The GNOME HIG explicitly states Ctrl+A as the shortcut for Select All
(http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/userinput.html#standard-shortcuts).
 Firefox still uses Alt+A for legacy reasons.  It is more reasonable to follow
the GNOME standard in this case.  As such, bug 233462 should depend on this one.  

Is there even any other GUI application that uses Ctrl+A like another Home key?
 Select All is a more common action, and using Alt for a shortcut just looks tacky.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 251081 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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