974856 - Object Inspector navigation: Implement keyboard shortcuts to expand and select by typing

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: Object Inspector, enhancement)

Description

[B.J. Herbison]

Open the object inspector with "inspect(document)" and click on the first property name "URL".

At this point up and down arrow and page up and page down work, but it would be nice to have other navigation. The lists get very long and the scroll bars can get hard to use (unless I make the tools so large I can't see the HTML page at the same time).

Some features which would be nice:

o Keyboard + and - to expand or collapse the current property.

o Typing a letter to go to the next property starting with that letter.

It would also be nice to clear or change filtering without losing the current selected property. If I find a property with a filter, and then want to clear the filter and look at other similarly named properties I need to find my location in the list again.

Comment 1

[B.J. Herbison]

Does this suggestion have the correct component and an appropriate summary? I just realized "Object Inspector" could refer to the view that pops up from the console command "inspect(object)" but could also be referring to the "Inspector" tab.

If my terminology is incorrect the same issue also applies to Bug 974334.

Comment 2

[Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe]]

Won't be fixed in the VariablesView, but is thought of in Bug 1379574 for the new console frontend. The ObjectInspector component is capable of such keyboard interactions (with navigation keys)