[feature] Add special Keys

MarZab / FxKeyboard

A virtual keyboard for Firefox

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/fxkeyboard/

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[feature] Add special Keys #4

Closed cwill747 closed 12 years ago

cwill747 commented 12 years ago

Added a couple special keys to the keyboard in their own section to the right. Could be extended in the future with more keys that perform special commands. Keys added were:

Print Key - Uses JSPrint (must be installed) to silently print pages
Back Button - Goes back in history for fullscreen kiosks

The special key section is disabled by default, and can be enabled in about:config. The individual keys within the section can also be disabled and enabled from about:config. Print is disabled by default, as you must have another extension to use it.

MarZab commented 12 years ago

We need to figure out a better way to add those buttons, without changing every locale. I'm thinking of:

Including one localised file into a generic xul for the translations.
A toolbar (that does not close on fullscreenmode) to let users do drag-n-drop of all firefox buttons. (maybe even one per side of each row)

cwill747 commented 12 years ago

The toolbar is a really good idea. maybe above the keyboard? The problem is I don't know if you can specify a toolbar that breaks the default behavior of fullscreen mode... I'll have to look into that.

As for the locale, wouldn't you still need to change it? Because of the language differences between locales? If the "Back" button was a back arrow instead of text, then it would be ok, but as text wouldn't those buttons say different things in each language?

MarZab commented 12 years ago

If there's a toolbar, the generic firefox buttons would be used; those are already localised.

cwill747 commented 12 years ago

Ah yeah good point. Ok I'm going to close this until we figure it out then.