Closed Bug 403493 Opened 17 years ago Closed 16 years ago

Windows/Linux Thunderbird F1 doesn't call help

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Mail Window Front End
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
trivial

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED
Milestone:
Thunderbird 3

People

(Reporter: reeseco, Assigned: mkmelin)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.6 (20070728)

Not sure if this is a bug, but when I use Wnidws programs, I expect certain things to be the same. The F1 key does nothing in Thunderbird. Using Windows standards, it should call help.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Thunderbird doesn't as yet have working help documentation, unfortunately; I think the alternative is a link to a website in the Help menu.  In the meantime you could probably file a bug against the main Thunderbird UI to get that menu item hooked up to the F1 key, which is more likely to be fruitful in the near future than getting built-in help documentation.  I peronsally don't have the time or energy to care enough at the moment, but all it would take would be one motivated person to get an initial push going, I think.  :-\
I'm fixing this in bug 373348.
Assignee: jwalden+fxhelp → mkmelin+mozilla
Component: Help Documentation → Mail Window Front End
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
->FIXED by bug 373348 landing.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
QA Contact: help-documentation → front-end
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Summary: Function keys are not Windows standard in Windows Thunderbird F1 doesn't call help → Windows/Linux Thunderbird F1 doesn't call help
Target Milestone: --- → Thunderbird 3
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