348582 - Implement Firefox's "switch text direction" in Camino

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Bug #85420 added Accel+Shift+X as a keyboard shortcut to switch text direction in widgets to Firefox, together with a menu command. However, this never made it into Camino, so bidi Camino users are left with no way (nither via a keyboard shortcut or via menu) to do this.

We should have this functionality present in Camino, in a similar way that it is in Firefox.

Comment 1

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

If I understand the other bug correctly, this adds 

1) a page-wide direction switch menu item to the View menu (Switch Page Direction) and 

2) textfield-specific menu item (and shortcut) to the context menu of all input[type=text] and textarea

Correct?

Syncing this with the other intl bugs at 1.2 so it doesn't get lost on the untargeted list forever ;)

Comment 2

[Shoshannah Forbes]

Yes, you understand this bug correctly.

Comment 3

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

In case anyone coming to read this bug isn't already familiar with the bookmarklets that perform these tasks, I've posted them at http://www.ardisson.org/smokey/moz/textdirection.html

Comment 4

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

Mass un-setting milestone per 1.6 roadmap.

Filter on RemoveRedonkulousBuglist to remove bugspam.

Developers: if you have a patch in hand for one of these bugs, you may pull the bug back to 1.6 *at that point*.