106687 - Context menu on outliner should not change selection?

Status: NEW

(Core :: XUL, defect)

Description

[[e-mail]]

This is a spin-off from bug 104808.

The outliner context menu changes the selection.
This is unsuitable for the folder pane's "Open folder in new window" option.
However, it is useful in the thread pane.

In comparison, Outlook Express's tree view appears to temporarily change the
selection during the context menu event, restoring it afterwards.

Comment 1

[Jesse Ruderman]

See also bug 30560, "right-clicking mail message/folder should not display it".

How should this work on Mac, where a common way to get a context menu is to 
hold the (left) mouse button for about a second?

Comment 2

[[e-mail]]

*** Bug 113415 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Sean Su]

I think I have a fix for this.  However, the seletion does change, but it does
not load the folder (in the folder pane) or the message (when in the thread pane).

The fix make mailnews behave like outlook express.  The patch is in bug 30560.

Comment 4

[Jesse Ruderman]

Right now, the selection changes when I right-click, and then it tries to change
back when I close the context menu.  Besides looking silly, the feature doesn't
work: if I right-click outside of an existing multiple selection, only one of
the messages because selected after I dismiss the context menu.

IMO, dismissing the context menu should display the message unless I select
"delete" in the context menu.

Comment 5

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

> How should this work on Mac

Long-click should change the selection, while Ctrl+click should work as 
proposed in comment 4.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

See also bug 95916 -- apparently the exact opposite behavior is standard on MacOS.