Status: Untriaged
Owner: [email protected]
CC: [email protected],  [email protected],  [email protected],   
[email protected],  [email protected],  [email protected]
Labels: Type-Bug Pri-2 OS-All Area-BrowserUI i18n

New issue 8043 by [email protected]: Zoom-out keyboard shortcut conflicts  
with 'select tab 6' shortcut with French keyboard in use.
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=8043

The French keyboard in France (but not in Canada) has '-' (unshifted), '6'
(shifted) and '|' (AltGR) where US  QWERTY has '6' and '^'.

As a result, Zoom Out (Ctrl + '-') and 'Select tab 6' (Ctrl + 6) conflict
with each other.

In Chrome, 'Select tab 6' takes a precedence while in Firefox it's zoom-
out. IE does not respond to ctrl + '-' in fr-FR layout, either.

More specifically, what Firefox does is :

- ctrl + shift + 'US 6' : select tab 6
- ctrl + 'US 6' : zoom out

- ctrl + shift + 'US 1' and ctrl + 'US 1' (the same for 2,3,4...9 except
for 6) select tab 1.


It seems that there are a few other layouts with this issue. For instance,
Slovak layout has '+' (unshifted), '1' (shifted) and '~' (AltGr) where US
QWERTY has '1' and '!'. So, Zoom-in conflicts with 'select tab 1'.

We just have a single across-locale (in this case, it's actually keyboard
layout rather than locale) short-cuts and accelerators.  Even if we decide
to have different accelerators/short-cuts defined for different UI
language, it's not clear what to do about this.
Perhaps, without having separate sets of accelerators, we can do what
Firefox does.


BTW, there are two other ways to zoom (ctrl + mouse wheel and menu). And,
obviously, tab 1 and tab 6 can be selected with mouse. Needless to say,
this is not ideal from the accessibility point of view.

I just realized that numpad + and - work even with fr-FR and Slovak
layouts. So, it's not very critical.

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