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Bug 89524
Opened 24 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
Change accelerators from Ctrl to Alt does work with multiple profiles (work around, use -P)
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(Core :: XUL, defect)
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(Reporter: nbaca, Unassigned)
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(Blocks 1 open bug)
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Build 2001-07-05-10: Linux RH 6.2 Overview: I tried to change my accelerators on linux from Ctrl to Alt but no change seemed to occur. Steps to reproduce: 1. Select Edit|Preferences 2. Go to Debug panel and change - Accelerator Key from 17 to 18 - Menu acess key from 18 to 0 3. Exit/Restart and choose a profile using the Profile Manager Actual Results: The underlines still appear for the top menu items such as File, Edit, View etc... Checked the preferences and it displays the new values 18 and 0. Alt+Q does not work and Ctrl+Q quits which is wrong. Workaround: Instead of using the Profile Manager in step #3, use the command line with the -P flag (i.e. ./netscape -P qatest20). Now the top menu items are not underlined and Alt+Q quits the application.
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Comment 1•24 years ago
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Thanks to Seth for suggesting the "-P" option which helped narrow down this bug.
Keywords: nsbeta1
Comment 2•24 years ago
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here's what I think is going on: the prefs ("ui.key.accelKey", "ui.key.menuAccessKey") get initialized early, in this case when the profile manager UI comes up. this happens before nbaca chooses a profile (and loads another prefs.js), so the default values are used. perhaps we need some pref callbacks so that these values get updated when the prefs change? there might be other prefs listed on http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html that have the same problem.
Summary: Change accelerators from Ctrl to Alt, no change unless -P used → Change accelerators from Ctrl to Alt does work with multiple profiles (work around, use -P)
Comment 3•24 years ago
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I'm fairly sure that an earier version of this code did use pref callbacks. But there's no callback code there now, either in nsXBLPrototypeHandler.cpp nor nsMenuFrame.cpp nor nsMenuBarListener.cpp. They should all have pref changed callbacks.
Comment 4•24 years ago
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Conrad may have some insight on this bug (since he's been in the profile picker recently).
Comment 5•23 years ago
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This is more of a menu/accelerator bug, not event handling.
Assignee: joki → hyatt
Component: Event Handling → XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus
QA Contact: madhur → jrgm
Comment 6•23 years ago
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actually, this sounds like it's entirely a profile and preferences issue.
Assignee: hyatt → ccarlen
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus → Profile Manager BackEnd
QA Contact: jrgm → ktrina
Comment 7•23 years ago
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Perhaps, except in that it would be really nice to be able to change key bindings some time other than startup time. If we ever get a key binding UI, it's going to look bad if we have to tell the user to restart to bring the new bindings into effect. But that arguably should be a separate bug.
Comment 8•23 years ago
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It's neither a prefs nor a profile problem. According to this, the problem is in
a client of the prefs service (menus):
> there's no callback code there now, either in nsXBLPrototypeHandler.cpp nor
> nsMenuFrame.cpp nor nsMenuBarListener.cpp. They should all have pref changed
> callbacks.
Changing component.
Assignee: ccarlen → hyatt
Component: Profile Manager BackEnd → XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus
QA Contact: ktrina → jrgm
Updated•23 years ago
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Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Comment 9•22 years ago
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Just to update, the problem still exists. // from user.js: 17 control, 18 alt, 224 meta user_pref("ui.key.accelKey", 18); user_pref("ui.key.menuAccessKey", 224); If the profile manager window is avoided (start with "-P default"), Alt is the accel key as I desire, and Meta operates the menus. If at start the profile manager window comes up (using an empty "-P" to force the profile manager), the accelKey is reset to Cntl and Alt accesses the menus. In the menus, however, the hot key is still listed as "Alt-", although this is incorrect. Bug #101046 appears to be a duplicate of this, but reaches a different conclusion about the cause. Is the conclusion in comment #8 still thought to be valid? Or is that conclusion possibly the inversion of the bug: ie, why the menus show user.js value but do not operate accordingly?
Comment 10•22 years ago
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Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i586; de-AT; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030203 user.js: user_pref("ui.key.accelKey", 18); user_pref("ui.key.menuAccessKey", 0); After a couple of hours, the key switches back from Alt -> Ctrl, although the menu shortcuts are still labeled 'Alt + Letter'. Runtime of mozilla ~4h, cpu time ~8min Im using two profiles, a standard and a test user, but both have the same user.js expansion of the preferences.
Component: XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus → XUL
QA Contact: jrgmorrison → xptoolkit.widgets
Updated•15 years ago
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Assignee: hyatt → nobody
Updated•15 years ago
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Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
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