235372 - Investigate possibility of using Volume: Up/Down/Mute Voice and Record as a scroll device

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Asa and Marcia discussed this possibility today after discovering this nifty
feature on the left hand side of the device. If we were to enable this to allow
scrolling it could greatly benefit the user experience. Not sure if technically
feasible, filing this for exploration.

Comment 1

[Rob Avina]

This sounds like a good idea, I think the biggest challenge is figuring out  if
all of those buttons are the same on every device.  The up down left right pad
on my rx 3115 would be great, and I have one other button, but it is changeable
in the main preferences.  Currently I switch it between voice recognition and
record my voice, depending how I am feeling, but I guess my point is, that not
all devices have those buttons. so make sure it is flexible.

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

-> default owner

Comment 3

[wes house]

the buttons you referto are on most windows mobile standard 5 devices and up . and I know they can be sued because there are other home brew apps tat use it for zooming/scrolling... It would make for a big functionality boost I am sure 

Comment 4

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

Is this still an issue now that a much more reliable system is in place (for fennec)?

Comment 5

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Natch: This is a really old bug that I filed back in the Minimo days. We can likely close this out if the Fennec team thinks it is not longer relevant.

Comment 6

[Nochum Sossonko [:Natch]]

marking wanted-fennec? to get this triaged.

Comment 7

[wes house]

I would keep it at least until some progress is made to NONtouchscreen devices .. then triage it...

Comment 8

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

this isn't going to happen.  using the volume for volume control is what people expect.

Comment 9

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Agreed.