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Status: Duplicate
Merged: issue 651077
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Last visit > 30 days ago
Closed: Oct 2016
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OS: Linux , Windows , All , Mac
Pri: 3
Type: Feature



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Keyboard shortcut to enter Device Mode directly, without opening DevTools first

Reported by bor...@gmail.com, Oct 2 2016

Issue description

UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/53.0.2785.116 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
Currently, if I want to open a Device Mode, I need to open DevTools first. Depending on the docking mode, it might either make my viewport area smaller, open a new window on top of the page etc. All those are small annoyances if I just want to play with the responsive design quickly.

In Firefox, Ctrl+Shift+M takes me to their version of Device Mode directly. In Chrome/ium, it's unpleasant that this shortcut is already taken for switching users so it will not be that straightforward change but it would still be super-useful.

What is the expected behavior?

What went wrong?
UX

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 53.0.2785.116  Channel: stable
OS Version: 10.0
Flash Version: Shockwave Flash 23.0 r0
 
Cc: kkaluri@chromium.org
Labels: M-55 OS-Linux OS-Mac
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
Considering this issue as feature request and marking it as untriaged.

Comment 2 by alph@chromium.org, Oct 10 2016

Labels: -Type-Bug OS-All Type-Feature
Owner: dgozman@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
I don't think we are going to have Device Mode without DevTools open. Do you propose to add a shortcut to open DevTools and engage with Device Mode at the same time? It's possible with two shortcuts right now (Ctrl+Shift+I -> Ctrl+Shift+M). You can also quickly switch docking with Ctrl+Shift+D.

Comment 4 by bor...@gmail.com, Oct 11 2016

The proposal is to open Device Mode without DevTools. From the user perspective, they are two separate tools. When trying responsive layouts, I don't need DevTools occupying my screen real estate, quite to the contrary.
Cc: dgozman@chromium.org pfeldman@chromium.org
Labels: -Pri-2 Pri-3
Owner: seththompson@chromium.org
Ok, over to Seth for prioritization.
Mergedinto: 651077
Status: Duplicate (was: Assigned)
Keyboard shortcuts are very difficult to add given the complexity of navigating around existing Chrome shortcuts.

We also view Device Mode as a key part of the full DevTools experience so I don't think we are likely to invest time in decoupling the mode into two tools.

I'm going to mark this as a duplicate of a related feature request which would provide greater control of the Device Mode panel from the DevTools API. If that feature were implemented, you could write a custom extension to better achieve your desired workflow.

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