Closed Bug 1043987 Opened 11 years ago Closed 11 years ago

Shortkut key to attach file does not work in Thunderbird 31 (Ctrl+Shift+A) [linux-only]

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Message Compose Window
Version:
31 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 269228

People

(Reporter: pospisil, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: regression)

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/34.0.1847.116 Chrome/34.0.1847.116 Safari/537.36 Steps to reproduce: In compose message window, with message pane selected, hit CTRL+SHIFT+a to attach a file Actual results: Selected all contents of message pane like hitting CTRL+a Expected results: Should have brought up the attach file window.
This seems to work fine for me on Win XP.
I can confirm that it works in Windows 7 (version 31) but it is the Linux version that seems to be affected.
Confirming on linux. hmm, xref bug 460400, bug 431011. ctrl-shift a - f are reserved by GTK. (I don't recall all of the story behind it, I think it was mitigated somehow, but maybe it changed back)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Untriaged → Message Compose Window
Ever confirmed: true
Keywords: regression
Summary: Short cut key to attach file does not work in Thunderbird 31 → Shortkut key to attach file does not work in Thunderbird 31 (Ctrl+Shift+A)
Summary: Shortkut key to attach file does not work in Thunderbird 31 (Ctrl+Shift+A) → Shortkut key to attach file does not work in Thunderbird 31 (Ctrl+Shift+A) [linux-only]
Does anyone know if this could be a "good first bug" ? If so, I'd like to help. :)
The actual fix might be easy or not. The hardest part is still likely figuring out the details on what and why. See comment 3.
Do you know when the regression occured? I tried hg bisect although I'm not much familiar with Mercurial and its refs, and the whole comm-central/mozilla-central repo organisation: When checking-out a ref on comm-central, should I check-out the closest ref (in time) on mozilla-central too before compiling? I don't know if I should ask this here or on the IRC though. About the bug, do you think code must be changed in the GTK project? For Ctrl+Shift+A opens the file manager when not in input field, or when CAPS-lock in turned on (as you said in the "see also" part).
This is really bug 269228. See details in that bug. Sorry, but I don't have any more info than that. You probably don't have to bisect. Nightly builds are available for each that (that they aren't broken). http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/ But it's unclear why it worked at some point. It may be that something was different in gtk for a while.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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