A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Martin Olsson
I really really would like to see BACKSPACE as BACK working in Firefox. I think this is the kind of polish bug that makes a lot of people stay away from ubuntu (beyond hardware problems of course). https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/60995 Is there any established process

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Sat, 2007-10-20 at 17:27 -0700, Martin Olsson wrote: I really really would like to see BACKSPACE as BACK working in Firefox. I think this is the kind of polish bug that makes a lot of people stay away from ubuntu (beyond hardware problems of course).

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/20/07, Martin Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really really would like to see BACKSPACE as BACK working in Firefox. I think this is the kind of polish bug that makes a lot of people stay away from ubuntu (beyond hardware problems of course).

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn
I installed Ubuntu just yesterday, and backspace not mapping to 'back in history' is the main annoying thing I found. It happened once or twice (in a year) that I went one page back when I wanted to delete text, because I wasn't focused on the right control. But I'd definitely choose the

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/20/07, Aaron C. de Bruyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Ubuntu just yesterday, and backspace not mapping to 'back in history' is the main annoying thing I found. It happened once or twice (in a year) that I went one page back when I wanted to delete text, because I wasn't

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Martin Olsson
Nicolas Alvarez wrote: I switched from IE to Firefox for three reasons: 1. Tabs rock 2. Open source rocks 3. Not suddenly finding myself 5 pages back in my history rocks. Maybe you mean that you switched from Windows to Linux for.. because Firefox on Windows has always used

Network Monitor

2007-10-20 Thread Matthias Andersson
Hello! Once I upgraded to 7.10 I've noticed that the Network Monitor version 2.12.1 isn't showing the signal strength anymore, it's always at 0%. The connection works fine and I guess the shown sent/received data amount is correct. Is someone else experiencing this? I reported this problem on

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Aaron C. de Bruyn
Maybe you mean that you switched from Windows to Linux for.. because Firefox on Windows has always used BACKSPACE==BACK. Also, I agree that reversability is very important in GUIs (being smart about confirms and providing good undo where it makes sense). Hmm--I never ran into my most

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sunday 21 October 2007 03:01, Martin Olsson wrote: Fergal Daly wrote: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=290474 has been sitting unloved for over 2.5 years now. Notepad.exe still takes more care to preserve your hard work :( So unless firefox becomes much more careful

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/20/07, Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Users overly concerned with using something that looks and feels like Windows, IMO, probably want to run Windows. Windows does is really an irrelvant argument from my perspective. Should I throw away absolutely all advantages of

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Saturday 20 October 2007 18:30, Nicolas Alvarez wrote: On 10/20/07, Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Users overly concerned with using something that looks and feels like Windows, IMO, probably want to run Windows. Windows does is really an irrelvant argument from my

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/20/07, Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 20 October 2007 18:30, Nicolas Alvarez wrote: On 10/20/07, Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Users overly concerned with using something that looks and feels like Windows, IMO, probably want to run Windows. Windows

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Martin Olsson
Nicolas Alvarez wrote: It's the wrong way to fix it. You can lose data by clicking enter while a link is focused too, should we disable the enter key? The right solution has been mentioned multiple times in multiple places: prompt Are you sure you want to change page and lose what you

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/21/07, Martin Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicolas Alvarez wrote: It's the wrong way to fix it. You can lose data by clicking enter while a link is focused too, should we disable the enter key? The right solution has been mentioned multiple times in multiple places: prompt

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Sat, 20 Oct 2007 19:56:02 -0300 Nicolas Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/20/07, Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 20 October 2007 18:30, Nicolas Alvarez wrote: On 10/20/07, Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Users overly concerned with using something that

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Oct 21, 2007, at 9:03 PM, Martin Olsson wrote: Nicolas Alvarez wrote: It's the wrong way to fix it. You can lose data by clicking enter while a link is focused too, should we disable the enter key? The right solution has been mentioned multiple times in multiple places: prompt Are you sure