Deck: navigation shortkeys not working/working wrong

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1

There are few problems with navigation shortcuts in advanced (deck) view:

1-9 should select column
1 selects sidebar
2 first column and so on

0 should go to the top of the column
but it works ad least weird

How to reproduce few cases i found

  • Esc, 2, 0 - should select first column and rewind it to the top (in fact it should be Esc, 1, 0 but i’m dealing with what i have)
    it WORKS sometimes, but not always and if not 0 is moving just a piece up, you have to click it many times to go to the top. And there are more weird behaviours here, hard to explain you have to play with it a little

  • Esc, 3, 0 - second column (notifications in most cases) same behaviour
    Instead id goes to first column and go to the top there
    WORKAROUND: Esc, 3, j, 0

  • select message, enter, 0 - open message in last column, and rewind to the top of thread
    focus stays in the column you’ve selected a post and rewinds it
    WORKAROUND: select message, enter, j, 0

If it is in any way browser dependent (it should not):

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:153.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/153.0

2

Did this change with the new design, or were those bugs there before as well?

3

There’s an issue on GH about this one and a few others, I’m trying to fix them this week. What’s described in this thread is caused by the 0 hotkey not always working.

4

It was working fine before revolut^W redesign.

5

I believe not only that.

And still column number moved by one is also kind of bug.

6

It’s not, we’re counting the navigation as a column, too, in both single- and multi-column mode.

7

Strange, not the internal column number but shortkey to in fact inactive sidebar. But ok maybe this will make more sense in the future, after some further changes.

8

I’m not sure I understand, can you explain in more detail what you mean by the “column number moved by one”? The way it’s intended to work is that the navigation is focused by pressing the key 1, the first pinned column is focused by key 2, and so on.

9

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It’s top of my account. From left: sidebar, main page, notifications, opened thread

How it WAS in mastodon 4.x and before

sidebar have no shortcut at all

1 - main page

2 - notifications

3 - opened post

than other pined columns if available

NOW in mastodon 5

1 - sidebar (for no reason) there is blue frame around mastodon social powered by… I’ve clicked 1 to do it.

2 - main page

3 - notifications

4 - opened post

What is even more strange If you click 1, j, 0 or 2, j, 0 you will get the same result, you will select post in main page… :>

10

That’s working as designed then. We explicitly want the navigation panel to be reachable via hotkey. j and k are for navigating posts and other complex items. If you just want to navigate links in the navigation, you can use the Tab key. It’d be a nice enhancement to make j and k work in the navigation as well, but it’s not super high priority.