Double click on text interpreted as open some dialog box rather than "select text"
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
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(Reporter: tim.w.connors, Unassigned)
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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/70.0.3538.110 Safari/537.36
Steps to reproduce:
Forward a (formatted) message and start editing.
Try to double click some ordinary text that has no special features to replace it. Keep doing that. Eventually, something different happens:
Actual results:
Rant at how the UI appears to lock up and then notice how a tiny dialog has opened opened up on another monitor 2 metres away (bug 518521)
Notice how the "Advanced Property Editor" is subject to bugs 525124, 1143744 that have had lots of discussion and regressions and back and forth and eventually be marked as "FIXED". But double clicking some innocuous looking text still pops up that stupid dialog that I have no intention of ever using.
Expected results:
I just want to select a word and act on it - the usual action one does when one double clicks in every other program ever written. If one wants to open a dialog to act on something, one always right clicks (or in inferior OSes where the user is deemed to stupid to be able to use ≥2 button mice, cmd-clicks).
By far the most common action most people want to happen when they double click a word in an editor is for that word to be selected (line or paragraph for triple click). Invoking a uncommonly wanted esoteric dialog is not the thing they wanted to be invoked. Not for editing words, graphics, cells in tables or anything. Single click is to focus on something. Double click is to select something. Triple click is to broaden the selection. Right click or command-click is to do something special with that selection. That's how it's always ever been anywhere else.
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Comment 1•6 years ago
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Try to double click some ordinary text that has no special features to replace it. Keep doing that. Eventually, something different happens:
What is the specific version you are using? If you have any add-ons, does this also happen in safe mode?
Version 60 is quite old now, and I don't think we have other reports of this. (There is Bug 1503286 - During a spell check before sending, double-clicking a suggested correctly spelled word no longer works - but that would seem to be unrelated)
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Comment 2•6 years ago
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60.4.0-1, in Debian/stable. No addons.
There is no newer version available in /unstable or /experimental, so the age can't be so large that I'd expect a bug like this that has existed for > 9 years would be fixed in the intervening 5 months.
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Comment 3•6 years ago
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If you are referring to the position of the dialog on the monitor - let's leave that to other bug reports.
This bug should only be about the double click not behaving as intended.
Walt have you ever seen this?
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Comment 4•6 years ago
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I have not seen this behavior.
Double clicking in a word that doesn't have a HTML element associated with it behaves as intended for me using 60.4.0 on Linux Mint 19.1.
Double clicking one with a HTML element associated with it also behaves as intended by opening an associated dialog box. Image properties for an image, Link properties for a link.
The image the reporter included appears to show they clicked on an HTML tag or formatted text and click the Advanced button.
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Comment 5•6 years ago
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I have seen this, in fact, I reported it and it was fixed: Bug 1501663 and
https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/60.3.1/releasenotes/
Works for me now in TB 60.4.0, I've never seen an unwanted dialogue pop up again. Do you have exact STR?
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Comment 6•6 years ago
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Tim, Do you have exact STR?
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Comment 7•6 years ago
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No response, so assuming duplicate
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