Description Susan McCourt 2005-03-30 17:35:03 EST

M6 candidate on windows (I20050330-0500).
I was trying to sanity check custom key bindings per the UI test plan and I 
found the Keys>Modify page somewhat baffling until I realized that there were 
special rules for typing into the Key Sequence:Name field.  At first I thought 
there was no way I could reassign a key

For example, I selected
Category:  Edit
Name:  Quick Fix
Assignments: In Windows  Ctrl+1

I went to the Key Sequence "Name:" field and highlighted the existing key 
(Ctrl+1) thinking I could type over it to redefine the binding.  Didn't work.  
Then I tried pushing the arrow button to the right of that field, getting a 
menu that says "Backspace Tab Shift+Tab" and I wasn't sure what to do with 
that.

So then I tried removing the binding altogether and making a new one, but had 
the same trouble.  I was about to decide that this page didn't work at all 
when I accidentally typed a "D" while the focus was in the Key 
Sequence "Name:" field with nothing selected.  It appended the key "D" as 
another binding along with Ctrl+1.  At this point I finally realized that the 
input rules on this field are "special."

As best as I can tell, you can't really do anything useful in this dialog 
until you've typed a key binding (at which time you can delete the old binding 
and add a new one with the new binding.)

At a minimum I think that typing a key should work in the key sequence Name: 
field even when something is selected.  That might give the user enough 
feedback to figure out how this field works and from there, figure out how the 
dialog works.

As a secondary concern, I kept excepting a combo box that would let me select 
from possible key combinations, and kept hitting that arrow to the right which 
shows Backspace, Tab, Shift+Tab.