63955 - [rfe] Advertise keyboard modifiers for left-clicking on context menus

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jesse Ruderman]

Mozilla should show keyboard modifiers for clicking links (etc.) on context 
menus so that users can find out what the modifiers are.

Comment 1

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

I don't think so. The Windows UI guidelines say (and the Mac OS UI guidelines 
implicitly suggest) that keyboard shortcuts should not be advertised on context 
menus, to reduce clutter.

Comment 2

[timeless]

That's interesting, because right clicking a window title shows me Alt-F4. And 
Netscape Communicator's Messenger hints about others.

FWIW, the right click on a window title is equivalent to the system menu which 
is treated as a normal menu, ...

WRT Clutter, right click an editable listbox on w2k w/ unicode character sets 
installed
Undo|Cut,Copy,Paste,Delete|Select All|
Right To left Reading Order
Show Unicode control characters
Insert Unicode control characters>
 LRM Left-to-right mark
 ...

Go to a common dialog or probably explorer, right click on whitespace
View>|Arrange Icons>,Line Up Icons,Refresh|Paste,Paste Shortcut,Undo Rename 
ctrl-z|New>|Properties

That's two. It seems ms is limiting the number of shortcuts per menu to one 
which is reasonable. It's the one menuitem for which I would *want* to know 
the shortcut.

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

I don't think commands like "Undo" and "Select All" need to have their 
shortcuts listed in context menus, because users can find those shortcuts using 
normal menus (at least when you're not in a dialog).  I just want click 
modifiers (like "Ctrl+click" for Open Link in New Window) listed.

Comment 4

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Chaning the qa contact on these bugs to me. MPT will be moving to the 
owner of this component shortly. I would like to thank him for all his hard 
work as he moves roles in mozilla.org...Yada, Yada, Yada...

Comment 5

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

updating to new owner. sorry for the spam.

Comment 6

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 81563, advertise all keyboard shortcuts on context menus (not just 
click modifiers).

Comment 7

[r0polach]

Ehm, where else (if not in context menu) can I find list of keyboard modifiers
for clicking links?

Comment 8

[Blake Ross]

I don't think we should do this.  It's nonstandard, would be distracting (imo),
and would make the context menu needlessly wide.  We're soon going to have a
keyboard shortcuts help document, like IE has (afaict, that's the only way IE
exposes these shortcuts too).

timeless, I suspect alt+F4 is displayed in the titlebar "context menu" because
it just shows the menu displayed when you left click the app icon, which isn't
really a context menu in my opinion.

Marking wontfix.

Comment 9

[:deanis74]

verifying based on discussion in similar bug 81563.

Comment 10

[Steve Chapel]

Fixing status whiteboard to be consistant with other parity-opera bugs for
easier searches. Sorry for the bugspam.