112788 - Accel-digit should switch between app windows (e.g. accel+2 mail)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Andy Lyttle]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120
BuildID:    2001112011

Accel-1 (one) switches between Navigator windows.  Accel-2 should switch between
Messenger windows.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open Messenger, then click Compose to begin composing a new message
2.  Press Accel-2
3.  Press Accel-2 again

Actual Results:  the main Messenger window (with the Inbox, etc.) comes to the
front, then stays there

Expected Results:  the main Messenger window should come to the front, then the
message composition window should come back to the front

This would be particularly helpful on Mac OS, where there is currently no
keyboard shortcut to switch between windows, other than Accel-1 to switch
between Navigator windows.  See bugs 53505 and 79450.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

The problem here is that mailcompose is not a messenger window, it's a
mailcompose window... different window types...

confirming rfe

I think this may be mac-only.  neither ctrl-1 nor alt-1 do anything on Linux.

Comment 2

[Andy Lyttle]

just verified that in 2001112009 on Win2k, Ctrl-1 does toggle between browser
windows.  It's not Mac-only.

Comment 3

[Andy Lyttle]

...and yes, mailcompose is a mailcompose window, but:

1) mailcompose and messenger windows are all part of the messenger component
2) there's no other keyboard shortcut to cycle messenger windows on Mac OS
3) Accel-2 doesn't cycle between multiple messenger windows either (double-click
on a folder to open a new window)

Comment 4

[Olga]

When saying Accel-2 you mean Ctrl+2, I believe.

Comment 5

[jglick]

I suppose an RFE could be to have Accel+2 cycle thru open Mail windows 
(including Compose) similar to the browser cycling between its open windows.

Comment 6

[Andy Lyttle]

When saying Accel-2 I mean Ctrl-2 on Win32, Cmd-2 on Mac OS, etc.

Comment 7

[scottputterman]

reassigning to ssu.

Comment 8

[Neal So]

if accel-2 were to scroll through mail-compose windows, would it also scroll
through open news windows too?  i think it should.  

alternatively, i have been asking for a keyboard accelerator to scroll through
*all* open mozilla windows, regardless of type.  in netscape 4.7, which i used a
long time, ctrl-tab did this.

Comment 9

[timeless]

eventually someone was going to file this.

Comment 10

[Aaron Leventhal]

I think this is a good idea, but it shouldn't be specific to mailnews. It should
work for anything that uses cmd+digit.

Need a good owner for this bug.

Comment 11

[Neal So]

If not Accel-2 to cycle between windows in the messenger component, users have
no accelerator to switch to mailcompose or news windows.  Does anyone have an
alternative key accelerator maybe?  Please don't let this bug sit idle.  :)

Comment 12

[Andy Lyttle]

Cmd-digit is obsolete after 1.4, isn't it?  So this is kind of moot.

Mac OS X now uses Cmd-` to switch windows, as requested in comment #8.  Yay!

Does Mozilla on Windows/Linux also need a keyboard shortcut to switch between windows?  If so, 
would Ctrl-` work, for cross-platform consistency?  I realize it's not available on all keyboards; 
what does Apple use?  Can we copy them?

Moving in the Firebird/Thunderbird direction and having Cmd-` switch windows on OSX is enough 
for me to consider this issue resolved, unless somebody wants a Windows/Linux shortcut to switch 
windows.

Comment 13

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but has been without a comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project. This means that it was logged against the old Mozilla suite and we cannot determine that it's still valid for the current SeaMonkey suite. Because of this, we are setting it to an UNCONFIRMED state.

If you can confirm that this report still applies to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it back to the NEW state along with a comment on how you reproduced it on what Build ID, or if it's an enhancement request, why it's still worth implementing and in what way.
If you can confirm that the report doesn't apply to current SeaMonkey 2.x nightly builds, please set it to the appropriate RESOLVED state (WORKSFORME, INVALID, WONTFIX, or similar).
If no action happens within the next few months, we move this bug report to an EXPIRED state.

Query tag for this change: mass-UNCONFIRM-20090614

Comment 14

[Robert Kaiser]

MASS-CHANGE:
This bug report is registered in the SeaMonkey product, but still has no comment since the inception of the SeaMonkey project 5 years ago.

Because of this, we're resolving the bug as EXPIRED.

If you still can reproduce the bug on SeaMonkey 2 or otherwise think it's still valid, please REOPEN it and if it is a platform or toolkit issue, move it to the according component.

Query tag for this change: EXPIRED-20100420