The 'Esc' key when using IME
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(IME: Input Method, a software which changes your keystrokes into characters.)
(I'm not native English speaker, sorry for my broken English.)
CJK users using IME everyday.
In vivaldi (on macOS, which I'm using; don't know is this problem exists or not on other platforms), when you are focus in a textarea or input box, pressing
Esc
key will let you lost focus. This is pretty good.But, when you are typing in IME and press
Esc
key, normally, we want to cancel the keyboard strokes, not cancel focus.Expected (Firefox):
When I press
Esc
, it will cancel all of the keystrokes I have already hit.Vivaldi:
When I press
Esc
, it lost its focus, and leave the keystorkes in the textarea.I think this is a unexpected behaviour, and it cause Vivaldi unuseable for some IME users.
FYI, my vivaldi version is:
Vivaldi: 1.15.1147.52 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
Revision: 6f366dbb9172720708b4db54fba0e304861fbd42-
OS: Mac OS X
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_13_2) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/65.0.3325.183 Safari/537.36 Vivaldi/1.96.1147.52Chinese version:
Vivaldi 中(Mac 下,其它平台没试过),如果你输入文字到一半,按 Esc 键,焦点就消失了,留下了一串拼音在输入框里面,感觉十分难受。
Firefox 和 Chrome 都不会这样。
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@oott123 Thanks very much for your report. Several IME users have already filed a bug regarding this issue and I know that the Vivaldi team has been discussing possible solutions. It's not as simple as changing the behaviour for all users because non-IME users expect the 'Esc' key to behave the way that it does right now. Hopefully, they will be able to find a creative solution that will accommodate all users.
Edit: Just checked and all of the relevant bugs have been closed. It looks like the Vivaldi developers have already implemented a solution in the Vivaldi 1.16 Snapshot builds. (VB-37561, VB-40829, and VB-40830)
https://vivaldi.com/blog/snapshots/security-updates-and-ime-fixes/I'm not an IME user so I cannot confirm this for myself.
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@oott123 What this really means is that your issue with the
Esc
key and IME should be resolved in the next Vivaldi release. Your should hopefully see these soon.However, If stability is your primary concern, I would not rush to install the Snapshot version just yet. Also beware that if you run into issues with a Snapshot build, reverting back to a Stable release is not really an option because the profiles are not entirely compatible and this could cause even more problems for you. (Some other Mac-specific changes in the Vivaldi installation also occurred between versions 1.15 and 1.16.)
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