[26811] in Athena Bugs
Re: Mozilla lockfile dialog box UI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Basch)
Thu Apr 6 11:48:28 2006
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On Apr 5, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Kevin Chen wrote:
> In the lockfile dialog box, I am unable to choose the "Continue,
> and invoke Mozilla's Profile Manager" option with the keyboard. I
> can tab to the option with the tab key, but I cannot select it with
> either space or Enter.
Thanks for your bug report. Yes, there are usability
issues with this dialog, due to the limitations of the
zenity program.
In testing, once I tab to the options list, I can move to the
desired option row using the up/down arrow keys. To
select the option, I can use the left-arrow key to move
to the radio button column, and then select it with space
or Enter. Admittedly, this is not very intuitive.
Hopefully, we will be able to improve matters when we
update to Firefox 1.5, which handles profile locking
differently.
Bob
Robert Basch
Infrastructure Software Development and Architecture
Information Services & Technology
