Summary: We should stop registering `Alt-a` as a shortcut key for
"Select All" on Linux.
Currently, Gecko registers `Alt-a` as a shortcut key for "Select All" on
Linux (but you who use Linux may know "Ctrl-a" also work as "Select
All"). However, this does not match with the other GTK applications nor
Chromium, and this may cause a problem around menubar navigation.
Therefore, I agreed with dropping this non-standard shortcut key.
Richard Marti (:Paenglab) and Thomas D. (:thomas8) created and tested a
patch for this. Thank you.
(FYI: If your environment registers `Alt-a` as a shortcut key for
"Select All", it keeps working because Gecko respects platform's
behavior, this post means that Gecko's additional shortcut key
definition will be dropped, and `Ctrl-a` will be added instead.)
Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1376091
Standard: N/A
Platform coverage: Linux
Preference: N/A
DevTools bug: N/A
Other browsers: Chromium on Linux does not handle `Alt-a` as "Select
All" on Linux
web-platform-tests: input-events/input-events-cut-paste.html
<https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/3d94f040d68627d07fb06be04a05cad33cda10d4/testing/web-platform/tests/input-events/input-events-cut-paste.html#56-57>
assumed that `Ctrl-a` or `Meta-a` is the shortcut key for "Select All".
Security and Privacy: Nothing affects
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Masayuki Nakano<[email protected]>
Working on DOM, Events, editor and IME handling for Gecko
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