Date: Mon, 18 Oct 2004 02:10:48 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: j.hatton@its.uq.edu.au Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Behaviour of ctrl key sequences in firefox-1.0PR Message-ID: <1098079848.859.23.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <200410180609.i9I69Gds020390@irt-joel.its.uq.edu.au>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, 2004-10-18 at 02:09, j.hatton@its.uq.edu.au wrote: > Hi, > > I work with Eric, and am the other person using thunderbird and > encountered the login problem - thanks for getting back to him so > quickly! We're in the process of re-upgrading thunderbird as I > speak. > > I've lately portupgraded to firefox-1.0PR and I have found a couple > of what for me are serious usability issues. I cannot say if these > are linked, but the behaviour seems to indicate it. First, I can > no longer use ctrl-u, ctrl-a, ctrl-e, ctrl-k and so on in the URL > field, or any other text input field. Additionally, any movement > input using neither arrow keys nor the usual emacs ctrl key sequences > is possible in text input fields. > > Although the latter issue seems more serious on the surface, I'm > sure it is just a bug and will be easily fixed - it is the loss of > key bindings for ctrl that is causing me real angst. This causes > me real problems with pasting from other applications (I'm on FreeBSD > 5.3BETA7), as I would usually select some text in the shell, click > into the URL field, ctrl-u, middleclick paste and so on. Needless > to say, ctrl-u now produces something entirely unwanted, and > attempting to paste with ctrl-v leaves me with the problem of > removing the old text and highlighting replaces what is in the mouse > buffer! Basically, my only option is to backspace over the entire > line - not fun... > > What I'm a little concerned about philosophically, going forward, > is whether this adoption of Microsoft key bindings will continue > as this appears to be at odds with the mouse select/paste model in > X - something I'm very fond of, and one of my primary reasons for > preferring to work in X rather than with MS windows. At present, I > am using Mozilla 1.7 as a workaround as I found it impossible to > work happily without the simple ability to kill text from and move > within an input field. Read /usr/ports/UPDATING. The fix for this is already documented. Joe > > best regards, -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBBc15ob2iPiv4Uz4cRAnm0AJwNDKINVWB5ku33BWf/4dFzwk+REACfR0w1 H2vmlpCX295kr2A8VkNUoRA= =p+H5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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