308115 - Change next/previous tab shortcut to allow for one hand.

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: Accessibility, enhancement)

Description

[Daniel Farrell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050718 Camino/0.9a2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050718 Camino/0.9a2

In version 0.9a2 running Tiger the short-cut for changing tab is alt+command and
either left or right arrow depending on the direction you want to move. However,
this requires that you use two hands to use the shortcut. For frequently used
shortcuts it would be nice to do this with one hand e.g. Safari's
command+shift+{ for tabs.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Jasper]

I can do it with one hand, place your right hand thumb right inbetween the
command and alt keys on the right side of the space par and use another finger
to press on the arrow keys.

Comment 2

[Daniel Farrell]

I can do that too - it's a bit of strech. 

I want to keep my right hand on the mouse for clicking links so ideally I want
the shortcut to be easy for my left hand.

Comment 3

[Daniel Farrell]

Hi,

Yeah I can do that but find it a bit of a strech. Also, it's not conjusive to
sufing because you have (in my case) take your right hand of the mouse to be
able to do the shortcut. 

You could change the alt for shift?

But I still think that apple's shortcuts are really well thought out.

History + & - is cmd+] & cmd+[
Tabbing + & - is cmd+} & cmd+{

i.e. you just use shift as a modifier.

Comment 4

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Apple's shortcuts have no connection to the actual action and therefore are very
hard to learn/remember.  Camino's shortcuts are connected to the action (moving
left or right, thus left or right arrow) and easy to remember.

I vote WONTFIX on this.

Comment 5

[Daniel Farrell]

Yes, I agree with you. Camino's actions do make more sense, it is nice to use
the arrow keys.

I personally would find it easier to have command+shift+left,
command+shift+right to do the tabbing. That's coming from somebody who plays the
piano and has big hands!

I would vote to reconsider the shortcut.

Regards, Daniel.

Comment 6

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

(In reply to comment #5)

> I personally would find it easier to have command+shift+left,
> command+shift+right to do the tabbing.

We can't use those, because they are used to select to beginning/end of line.
So we either use the Safari shortcuts (which may not work for non-US keyboards),
or WONTFIX.

Comment 7

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Arrows are available on all mac layouts.
Safari shortcuts are not intuitive on non mac layouts, plus Camino is a simple
web browser.

WONTFIXing for l10n reasons.

Comment 8

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Verified WONTFIX.