1592742 - Menu access key conflict / not working as expected

Status: NEW

(Calendar :: Dialogs, defect)

Description

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1525426 +++

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:64.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/64.0

Steps to reproduce:

Opened Thunderbird, pressed Alt+V, T, M

Actual results:

Displayed View menu - Toolbars, Layout, Folders, Today Pane, Calendar, etc.

Expected results:

Should have progressed to 'Toolbars' submenu, then toggled 'Menu Bar'. In Firefox, this does toggle the 'Menu Bar' and I thought it previously worked in Thunderbird.

The reason it does not work is because there are two submenus in the View menu that have been allocated the letter 'T' - 'Toolbars' and 'Today Pane'.

Surely within any one menu, shortcut keys should be unique?

Worse still is the Tools menu, where 'O' is allocated to three submenus: 'Add-on Options', 'Join Chat' and 'Options' - almost pointless having shortcut keys!

Similarly, in the Edit menu 'C' is allocated twice and in the Message menu, 'A', 'I' and 'W' are allocated twice.

Comment 1

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

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