Closed Bug 144303 Opened 23 years ago Closed 20 years ago

No accelerators in to/cc/bcc dropdown menu

Categories

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Product:
MailNews Core
Component:
Composition
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
minor

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 119192

People

(Reporter: bill.sheppard, Assigned: sspitzer)

References

Details

(Keywords: access)

From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020418 BuildID: 2002051006 NS4.x supports typing the first letter of [To/CC/BCC] while focus is on the dropdown menu to choose that entry. This makes for much faster keyboard-based composition - upon message composition window opening, just hit shift-tab to move focus to drop-down, then hit "T", "C", or "B" to make the correct choice. Reproducible: Always
-->varada
Assignee: ducarroz → varada
a former occurance of this was bug 95844 (resolved as fixed)
Yes, I was the reporter on that bug as well. I had assumed once it was fixed, that is, you could select the dropdown menu itself, there would be accelerators for the individual choices (ala NS4.x). This didn't happen, hence this report. I'll leave it for those qualified to determine whether this is a bug (usability), or an RFE...
not resolving as duplicate because this bug demonstrate problem with current implmentation of combo-menu search very well: type B -> goes to BCC type C -> doesn't go to CC because BC still matches BCC wait a while and type C -> now goes to CC
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Depends on: 150590
Ever confirmed: true
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Assignee: varada → ducarroz
-->back to varada!
Assignee: ducarroz → varada
Keywords: access
QA Contact: esther → olgam
taking all of varada's bugs.
Assignee: varada → sspitzer
Probably a duplicate of bug 95250.
Not a dupe of 95250; that bug is about menus, not dropdowns. Couldn't find a dupe on dropdowns. Daniel Wang is right (comment 4) about dropdown's search-by-key being faulty; I just tried it on the MailViews dropdown and got a crash with the first key I hit (talkback submitted). Regarding hotkeys for the addressing fields, see also the related bug 141459.
*** Bug 175060 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 175060 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030619 We're close on this one--it works "half way": 1. In Compose, if you have several addresses listed as "To:" you can <Tab> to the address type field and hit the DOWN arrow to see your choices (To, CC, Bcc, etc.) and then type the first letter and hit <Enter> to select. 2. However, you still can't just <Tab> to the address type field and hit the letter to select directly--you must first either hit DOWN or click on it to be able to select a new type.
Once you drop down the menu with Alt+Down/F4, can you then hit the correct letter? The reason I ask is: I think this is a general problem with XUL dropdows that you can't select by first letter if it's not dropped down. I'm not sure if this is a regression or whether we never got it right.
Yes, once you have hit Down or F4 to show the drop-down selections of "To", "CC", "Bcc", etc., you can hit the first letter to select the new message type. The new type is simply highlighted, even though the black check mark does not move there (which is confusing), but if you then hit <Enter> the selection does indeed take effect. The problem is really that you have to drop the menu down in order to make any changes--you should be able to simply have the menu in focus (highlighted) in order to make the changes (which was the Netscape 4.x behavior).
Could you file a bug something like "Closed XUL menulists don't accept navigation by typing first char of item" Mention that it is standard platform behavior on Windows to do so.
I would like to add to this bug (should I open a new one?) that the uparrow/downarrow keys in the dropdown move by two instead of one. What I mean is: - I'm in the To: field about to enter an email address - I do Shift-Tab to focus on the To: dropwown - I do Down-Arrow to open it, To: is highlighted - I do Down-Arrow, expecting to go to Cc:, but it skips it and goes to Bcc:.
I should add, this behavior is on Linux with Mozilla 1.5 (also was in 1.4).
There is a patch in bug 119192 that appears to at least partially address this bug. Dupe?
(In reply to comment #4) > not resolving as duplicate because this bug demonstrate problem > with current implmentation of combo-menu search very well: > type B -> goes to BCC > type C -> doesn't go to CC because BC still matches BCC > wait a while and type C -> now goes to CC It turns out that's a deliberate behavior -- see bug 92491. That was what made me think this was still broken, but it's not. (In reply to comment #12) > 2. However, you still can't just <Tab> to the address type field and hit the > letter to select directly--you must first either hit DOWN or click on it to be > able to select a new type. This has been fixed as well -- bug 64157. However, this broken behavior is seen in current Thunderbird builds. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 119192 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Product: MailNews → Core
Product: Core → MailNews Core
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