41748 - Change cursor to context-menu cursor when control key is down

Status: REOPENED

(Core :: XUL, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

When control is held down and a context menu would pop up if the mouse was
clicked, we should change the cursor to the OS context-menu cursor.

request for enancement, fairly minor but platform integration.

Comment 1

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

marking future and helpwanted so some enterprising netizen can come along and
make us suck less.

Comment 2

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

notes talking to saari:
- extend ESM to be able to give mouse position, button down, etc (while we're at it)
- get the frame for the current mouse point on a control-key-down event
- get its content node
- walk the parent chain looking for popup listeners of type "context"
- if we find one (somehow) change the cursor.

Comment 3

[Kathleen :Brade]

This bug will be dependent on bug #26269 which is a Mac-specific bug for 
producing events for modifier-only keys.

Comment 4

[Adam]

This bug will be a duplicate of bug 33229 (or you can mark it the other way
around; whichever one will draw the most attention).

Comment 5

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

*** Bug 33229 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 146106 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 7

[Greg K.]

Proposing this is of Trivial Severity, not Enhancement. Mike, if you agree,
please set it as such.

Comment 8

[Greg K.]

Resolving WONTIFX as OS X doesn’t change the cursor any more.

Comment 9

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

Not true! Only some apps do it, which has almost always been the case. As an example, try iTunes.

Comment 10

[Greg K.]

Hm, true. However, isn’t iTunes a Carbon app? Perhaps this is one of those old Carbon/Cocoa issues. The Finder, I think, is Cocoa, and doesn’t do it.

Comment 11

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

The Finder is Carbon. This is just an app-specific thing.

Comment 12

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The bug assignee didn't login in Bugzilla in the last 7 months, so the assignee is being reset.