Closed Bug 14841 Opened 25 years ago Closed 24 years ago

Disabled items skipped in menus when navigating w/keyboard

Categories

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Product:
Core
Component:
XUL
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: cpratt, Assigned: german)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: We need a UI decision here.) 

Build ID: 1999092408
Platform: all

To reproduce:
- Launch apprunner
- Press Alt+E to drop down the Edit menu
- Press the down arrow key a couple of times

Result: You switch between Wallet and Preferences only.

Expected result: Disabled items should be selectable using the cursor keys as
well. That is, pressing the down arrow key should go through Undo, Redo, Cut,
Copy, Paste etc.
Assignee: shuang → saari
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: M12
QA Contact: claudius → cpratt
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Why do I care if I cannot keyboard select a disabled item?
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Because it's a major usability problem for people that are used to using the
keyboard to navigate in applications. For example, Alt+<menu accelerator>+<up
arrow> should always take you to the last item in a menu - and because of the
way things are in 5.x, this doesn't work. Reopening, cc'ing the UE folks for the
final word on the matter.
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
Clearing WON'T FIX resolution due to reopen.
Target Milestone: M12 → M15
setting p3 for m15.
*** Bug 14839 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Component: UE/UI → XPMenus
QA Contact: cpratt → sairuh
reassign QA contact to me & updated component.
Assignee: saari → pinkerton
Status: REOPENED → NEW
Taking menu/popup bugs.
intended behavior (we like the mac way, deal).
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago → 25 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
Reopening. This is a major usability issue for Windows users; if it's really
intended this way, I'd like to see german or another usability engineer mark it
as WONTFIX. Thanks.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: WONTFIX → ---
ok, assiging to german for usability decision.
Assignee: pinkerton → german
Status: REOPENED → NEW
Whiteboard: We need a UI decision here.
BULK MOVE: Changing component from XP Menus to XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus.  XP 
Menus component will be deleted.
Component: XPMenus → XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus
I'm not pressing for urgency, so if this is a simple issue, could it be 
eventually done anyway? I do not like the idea of adjusting dynamically the 
number of actions a user must perform to reach a command. 
The current behavior as of at least March 21 (see bug 32685) is that the 
disabled items are not skipped.  So I'd say that this bug is resolved.
wfm, using the 2000.03.28.09 opt comm bits on winNT. marking it as such.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 25 years ago → 24 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
verif.
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus → XUL
QA Contact: bugzilla → xptoolkit.widgets
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