198067 - alt + <arrow> navigation conflicts with CDE virtual desktop switching

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Aaron Katz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021205
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021205

Mozilla uses alt + {left,right} arrow as keyboard shortcuts to navigate back and
forward through the history list.  In Solaris's CDE (using SunOS v2.8), this is
also used to switch virtual desktops, which takes precedence over Mozilla's
commands, thus making it impossible to use the keyboard to navigate through the
history.  This "collision" should be repaired.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. build up a history in the current browser session (making the "back" button
available)
2. hold down alt key and press the left arrow key
Actual Results:  
virtual desktop switches

Expected Results:  
gone to the last document viewed.

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

-> Sun

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Note that back and forward have been Alt-left and Alt-right since the Netscape
3.x days.... Those are likely _the_ most used keyboard shortcuts...  So what we
want to do is to add another shortcut for the same task, not change those.

Comment 3

[Jon Henry]

*** Bug 228528 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Jon Henry]

Confirming based on the dupe I just marked. Is Kyle the right assignee? I
noticed that he's no longer the default one for this component.

Comment 5

[timeless]

kyle was never the default assignee.

we should probably add meta-left and meta-right.

fwiw this is definitely still present having hit this both @umich and @uchicago
(and long ago ...)

Unfortunately i didn't play around on n4 to see what it accepted...

Comment 6

[Kyle Yuan]

Yes, I'm not the default assignee, but I'm still working for mozilla :)

Simford, could you take a look?

Comment 7

[[e-mail]]

Are Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+] not good enough?

Comment 8

[Simford]

Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+] works fine in Solaris CDE

Comment 9

[Mats Larsson]

Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+] works but is not documented. Personally I think Ctrl+Left and
Ctrl+Right is better and more intuitive.

Comment 10

[Simford]

Ctrl+Left and Ctrl+Right have also been used by CDE
for changing the focus of app icons in the basebar