Comment 1 for bug 466005
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| Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote Re: Data loss: Inline editor of bug description not compatible with back, forward (Thinkpad keyboard in particular) | #1 |
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I switched back to my Thinkpad earlier this week for natty work.
In the last six days I have lost approximately ten mid-edit Launchpad forms because of hitting "back" instead of left/right/up/down, including two in the last hour (hence hunting out this bug). Whilst the hardware design of placing the buttons next to the arrow keys is utterly stupid, when it combined with the data-loss from pressing back-then-forward in Launchpad AJAX then it magnifies up to a major pain, exacerbating stress and causing momentary screaming ... then, in some cases, another 20 minutes redrafting the update along with re-finding all of the included links.
Workarounds: (1) I know that I can do some custom mapping to make back/forward do nothing (I used just this for several years on a previous Thinkpad R31 and then again on a Thinkpad R51). (2) I can use the Launchpad email interface more. (3) Try to remember to edit in an external editor that doesn't lose state when those keys are pressed.
Ideally the AJAX would work in such a manner that pressing "Back" (or forwards), followed by "Forward" (or back) is fully reversible. Normal HTML forms work in this fashion.