Bug 2405 – Center dpad press is treated as <enter> key, triggering form submit instead of activating finger keyboard

Bug 2405 - Center dpad press is treated as <enter> key, triggering form submit instead of activating finger keyboard


Summary:	Center dpad press is treated as <enter> key, triggering form submit instead o...

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Product:	Browser
Component:	User interface
Version:	4.1 (4.2008.23-14)
Platform:	All Maemo

Importance:	Low minor with 7 votes (vote)
Target Milestone:	5.0 (1.2009.41-10)
Assigned To:	Nagineni Sudarsana Babu
QA Contact:	browser-bugs

URL:	data:text/html,<form action="data:tex...
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Blocks:
	Show dependency tree

Reported:	2007-11-28 02:33 UTC by Ryan Abel
Modified:	2009-09-28 18:45 UTC (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Description Ryan Abel (reporter) maemo.org

2007-11-28 02:33:58 UTC

STEPS TO REPRODUCE THE PROBLEM:

1. Make sure the browser homepage is set to the default.
2. Open a new browser window.
3. Press the center d-pad to attempt to activate the thumbboard.

EXPECTED OUTCOME:
Center d-pad would bring up the thumbboard to enter a query with (as the text
entry box is highlighted and the I-beam is flashing).

ACTUAL OUTCOME:
Center d-pad sends an empty query to google.com, effectively redirecting the
user to the exact same page he was just viewing.

REPRODUCIBILITY:
Always.

OTHER COMMENTS:
If the I-beam is flashing and the field is highlighted, the center d-pad should
behave correctly and bring up the thumbboard. Seems like a bad feature to have
it perform a completely redundant redirection to google.com

Comment 1 timeless 2008-07-04 10:03:05 UTC

*** Bug 3394 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2008-08-27 13:24:56 UTC

Bug 3640 is a bit similar for Modest - I assume this is still an issue with
updated Diablo?

Comment 3 Ryan Abel (reporter) maemo.org

2008-08-27 21:25:47 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> Bug 3640 is a bit similar for Modest - I assume this is still an issue with
> updated Diablo?
> 

No, this has not been fixed.

Comment 4 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2008-10-08 14:49:46 UTC

(Removing deprecated "Future" Target Milestone.)

Comment 5 Ryan Abel (reporter) maemo.org

2008-10-29 12:00:31 UTC

What's the word here? One year later and still absolutely no progress?

Comment 6 sarah.newman 2009-02-08 03:20:10 UTC

This bug p*ssed me off so much that I used dpkg-repack to repackage the old
browser from chinook and downgraded the browser on diablo, because there was no
way I was going to use diablo with this bug.  If anyone wants instructions on
how to do this contact me.

Comment 7 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2009-05-07 17:51:11 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> This bug p*ssed me off so much that I used dpkg-repack to repackage the old
> browser from chinook and downgraded the browser on diablo, because there was no
> way I was going to use diablo with this bug.  If anyone wants instructions on
> how to do this contact me.

Well, please feel free to post them here.

Comment 8 Andre Klapper maemo.org

2009-09-28 18:45:45 UTC

This is a WONTFIX as the N900 will not have a dpad key and as Maemo4 will only
receive critical bugfixes, if at all.
No idea about any potential further Maemo Devices though, but if a dpad is
provided again the underlying codebase will have changed radically anyway.