164930 - Mail compose To/CC/BCC list items should be able easily delete/insert

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[Ying-Lin Xia]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; ja-JP; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; WinNT4.0; ja-JP; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0

Currently on Mail Compose, after type any email address on To/CC/BCC list field,
they can not be easily deleted, for example, using Del key.

Also, the little icon on each item doesn't mean anything there, double-click it
should bring up the address book.

See screenshot below...

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Ying-Lin Xia]

Attachment: screenshot

Comment 2

[Ying-Lin Xia]

Here is my suggestion:
1) Single-click the little namecard icon, should high-light that email address;
2) Once an email address is high-lighted, press Del key can easily remove it;
3) Double-click the little namecard icon, should bring up the address book;

Comment 3

[Jean-Francois Ducarroz]

-->varada

Comment 4

[varada]

The fix for single click to highlight the address has already been checked in. 

Comment 5

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

taking all of varada's bugs.

Comment 6

[Thomas Brown]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20021229

This may be related to a more general keyboard focus/shortcut bug.  May also
relate to lack of shortcut keys for "T"o, "C"C, "B"CC, etc.  In Netscape 4.x You
used to be able to <Tab> to the "To/CC/Bcc" pull-down and just hit the first
letter, or "Del" to delete the address.

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

As noted in comment 4, the single-click-to-highlight suggestion is already in 
place; and once it is highlighted, Del clears it.

The suggestion regarding double-clicking the icon to open the address book is a 
good one; I have copied it over to Bug 81672, which was already about a UI to 
open the address book at the field without going to the toolbar or menu.

Ying-Lin Xia: given that, may we close this bug? (as WorksForMe)

Comment 8

[Thomas Brown]

Everything but the features mentioned in comment 6 are now working here. 
However, further research reveals that comment 6 is better handled by bug 144303.

Comment 9

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

=>WorksForMe