87803 - alt-f,<left> doesn't reach system menu. but we already knew that

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 37660

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[Niek van der Donk]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; en-US; rv:0.9.1) Gecko/20010607
BuildID:    2001060703

normally if you use the keyboard to access the menus the menu to the "left" of
the File menu is the window menu. If you go left at the File menu however you go
the the rightmost menu. Thus I cannot minimize or close a Mozilla window using
the keyboard.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open browser
2.press Alt-F
3.press left arrow key (<-)

Actual Results:  The QA menu is displayed.

Expected Results:  The window restore/ minimize/ close menu is displayed.

Comment 1

[Ed Grochowski]

I can confirm the above report using 2001062204 on Win2K... However; I am
uncertain as to what the standard is... it seems "somewhat" application
specific. For example, MS Visual C++ 6.0 behaves as described (Alt-F, left arrow
brings up system menu). However, Internet Explorer 5.50 does not. It's behaviour
is like Mozilla's, namely ALT-F left-arrow goes to the Help menu not the system
menu.

Having said that, I did a quick survey on my computer. In addition to Visual C++
6; Paint Shop Pro 5, Acrobat 5, WordPerfect 9, and Winzip 8 all goto the system
menu from the File menu. Codewright 6.0, like IE 5.5, does not.

A side note: when you build a new project (either SDI or MDI) in Visual C++ the
default behaviour is to go to the system menu after left arrowing from the File
menu. This "suggests" a preferred behaviour (by MS tools vendors at least).

Comment 2

[James Paige]

I hate to mention this, since bugs with good worarounds get less attention, but
a good workaround for this is ALT+SPACE

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

->UID for spec on desired behavior.

Comment 4

[timeless]

this bug report is rather useless.

a. it's invalid as filed. alt-f4 closes the window using the keyboard.
b. it's a dupe.
c. the correct behavior is of course to reach the system menu. the reason it 
doesn't work in ie, moz, that other program and netbeans/forte is that they 
implement their own menus.  When one of them fixes the problem (which requires 
a lot of thought) the others will soon follow (because they will be able to 
steal the conceptual fix).

Hrm. since i've just provided the spec (c) i guess i can take this bug out of 
UID. Oh well. Duping. Reporter: please don't be too disheartened or angry at my 
comments. Ideally you can learn from them even though I didn't word them 
remotely politely. [lessons: file bugs w/ accurate summaries, search for bugs 
before filing]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 37660 ***

Comment 5

[:deanis74]

vfy