1024684 - Inconsistent accelerators for keyboard shortcuts in content preferences (Shift vs. Shift + Alt)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

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

Description

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

In the in-content preferences, the shortcuts require the user to press Shift + Alt + character. If the user opens a dialog from the in-content preferences, he has to use Alt + character in these. Also, it isn't obvious why the accelerators are different from the ones for the menu bar.

Furthermore, I am worried that support will have more issue reports by people who toggle the active keyboard with Alt + Shift on the left side on Windows systems.

Comment 1

[Matthew N. [:MattN]]

We're going to move sub-dialogs to be in-content so it's consistent.

Comment 2

[Fischer [:Fischer]]

(In reply to Sebastian Hengst [:aryx][:archaeopteryx] from comment #0)
> In the in-content preferences, the shortcuts require the user to press Shift
> + Alt + character. If the user opens a dialog from the in-content
> preferences, he has to use Alt + character in these. Also, it isn't obvious
> why the accelerators are different from the ones for the menu bar.
> 
> Furthermore, I am worried that support will have more issue reports by
> people who toggle the active keyboard with Alt + Shift on the left side on
> Windows systems.
Does the issue still exist since sub-dialogs have been moved to be in-content as Comment #1?

Comment 3

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

This works now with the latest Nightly.