23685 - Mousewheel prefs panel needs per-platform modifications

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect, P3)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

The mousewheel prefs panel currently refers to modifier keys which are PC-
specific (specifically, the Alt key). This needs to be changed (probably with
platform overlays, or different DTD entries) to use platform-specific names for
the modifier keys. On Mac, the modifier keys are Shift, Option (==alt) and
Control. There is also the Command key. Code-level changes may need to be made to
handle the command key modifier.

Comment 1

[old account]

What I'm currently planning to do (as dicussed with mcafee) is change to having
a select widget with a list of modifier keys, which will vary by platform, and
have that cause the correct set of prefs to be displayed.

Comment 2

[old account]

Marking M14- it might be done before then though.  It's not a usability issue at
this point because mousewheel on Mac is nonfunctional because of other problems
(see bug 7347).  But, changing the pref layout would make the panel a lot
cleaner.

Comment 3

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

reassigning qa contact to janc, who now works with the mouse wheel.

Comment 4

[old account]

Fixed with checkin tonight.

Comment 5

[leger]

Bulk move of all Pref UI component bugs to new Preferences component.  Pref UI 
component will be deleted.

Comment 6

[Jan Carpenter]

Verified
2000-07-13-08-M17 : Linux
2000-07-13-09-M17 : WinNT & Win98

Comment 7

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

transferring these to my netscape.com email.