197778 - Next Tab shortcut conflicts with Universal Access with French Keyboard

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul Guyot]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030314 Chimera/0.7+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030314 Chimera/0.7+

Next Tab shortcut, which I think is counter intuitive (I nearly asked on the
mailing list if there was one), conflicts with MacOS X Universal Access Zoom Out
shortcut.

Please note that it's probably related to bug
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=170155

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Switch to French or French numerical keyboard
2. Check that } is obtained with option + the second key on the left of the
delete key. - is obtained with the first key on the left of the delete key.
3. Press command+option+[first key on the left of the delete key] to see the
Zoom In.
4. Press command+option+[second key on the left of the delete key] to see the
Zoom Out. Oh! this was the shortchut for next tab.


Expected Results:  
I admit that Apple doesn't implement the shortcuts they pretend to. Still,
Camino should use a better shortcut like Command+> and Command+< which is much
easier to produce on most keyboards. What I really tried was command+optio+tab
since I'm used of tab and shift+tab to navigate through MT-NewsWatcher's commands.

Comment 1

[Kathleen :Brade]

note: this is camino-specific version of this bug

Comment 2

[Paul Guyot]

About the command-> and command-shift-> suggestions.
I wasn't fresh this morning. These shortcuts are OS X 10.2's cycle thru windows
default shortcuts.

Better shortcuts would be command+≥ and command+≤. I've tested them on a dozen
of keyboards: these characters can often be obtained with the key(s) than < and
> but different modifiers or with keys next to those required for > and < but
with the same modifiers (this is the case with Canada CSA). They never conflict
with Universal Access.

Comment 3

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

shouldn't the french version have localized shortcuts? take that up with the
french localization team, no?

Comment 4

[Paul Guyot]

Er. What's the link between Camino in French and using Camino with a French keyboard?

Why would I have to use Camino in French to get working shortcuts?

Comment 5

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

landed cmd-opt-left/right arrow as replacements. i'm sure these will conflict in
new and totally different ways.