306497 - Documentation: The keyboard shortcuts in Mandriva builds are not as documented

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: Help Documentation, defect)

Description

[Richard Neill]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511

In the Mandrake/Mandriva builds of Mozilla, some keystrokes differ from the
documentation. Eg:

Key        Documented         Mandriva
           Behaviour          Behaviour

Ctrl-A    Start of line      Select all
Ctrl-E    End of line         none
Ctrl-K    Cut line            none


Obviously, the Mandrive packagers are changing the default keybindings. This is
daft, but I can see why they have done it. Eg Ctrl-A = Select All in MS windows,
despite the broken compatibility with readline. However, the documentation still
has the defaults.

So

a)I think this deserves a mention in the documentation (both under Help and on
the website)

b)Is there any way to change it back?  The default mozilla.org keybindings are
much better! 

Reproducible: Always




BTW, I wanted to file this under "Documentation", but there is no documentation
component in bugzilla.

Comment 1

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

Hmm, one wonder why the Mandrive packagers doesn't change the documentation...
This should probably be reported to Mandrive instead.

Comment 2

[Richard Neill]

I already did report it to Mandriva:
http://qa.mandriva.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18024
However, they are unlikely to regard it as a bug, and even if they do change the
documentation to match the shortcuts, the shortcuts are still "wrong".

What would be nice is if Mozilla.org provided instructions on how to change the
keyboard shortcuts back to the defaults. 
[I did find this: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html , but I can't
understand it!)

Comment 3

[[e-mail]]

If this is a GTK1 build then the keyboard shortcuts are stored in
platformHTMLBindings.xml which you can simply copy from a Mozilla GTK1 build.

Comment 4

[Richard Neill]

Thank you. It's actually a GTK2 build, but I assume that I can do something very
similar. Since there are only  a few keys, I'll fix the file by hand.
Presumably, I'd need to edit the system-wide file, rather than anything in my
profile? 

Comment 5

[[e-mail]]

Ah, for GTK2 it's supposed to follow your Gnome preferences.

Comment 6

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Resolving INVALID per comment #5

Richard, feel free to reopen if current SeaMonkey builds are neither as (currently) documented, nor following your Gnome preferences.