310846 - Preferences do not respond to keyboard navigation through categories

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[K Chayka]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050930 SeaMonkey/1.1a
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20050930 SeaMonkey/1.1a

Navigating the preferences window by keyboard, using arrow keys in the category
list, has no effect on the content of the settings panel. A right/left arrows
expand and collapse catogories, and arrow up/down changes the highlighted
category, but nothing changes the content of the settings panel except a mouse
click.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. From the browser, open the preferences window. The Navigator category should
be automatically expanded and the Navigator preferences show in the settings panel.
2. Arrow up. The Appearance category is highlighted.

Actual Results:  
The content of the settings panel does not change to Appearance fields, but
sticks with Navigator fields.

Expected Results:  
Selecting a different category by keyboard should change the displayed settings
accordingly.

mozilla 1.7x does not have this problem. I don't think the build from September
26 had the problem, either, but will confirm that.

Comment 1

[K Chayka]

Confirmed that the 20050926 build does not have the problem. Looking through
bonsai for checkins since then, the description for bug 309099 sounds related.

Comment 2

[K Chayka]

Whatever caused this bug seems to have cleared itself up. Mark WFM.