1813959 - Ctrl+A keyboard shortcut fails to select all messages in message list, selects thread pane text content instead

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Folder and Message Lists, defect)

Description

[bbhtt]

Attachment: tb-select-shortcut.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/111.0

Steps to reproduce:

With the new layout in daily, the Ctrl-A shortcut to select all emails in daily doesn't work. It seems to select all the folders in my case and then Ctrl-Shift-A selects all the emails (see screenshot).

This started happening around January 24 2023 when the new layout was rolled out in daily.

Actual results:

The folders get selected

Expected results:

Emails should be selected

Comment 1

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Thanks bbhtt. Please note that filling bugs against 111 is discouraged until 14-Feb as we're still working on these things.

But yes, confirming for 111.0a1 (2023-01-30) (64-bit), Win10.

STR

• Select a message in message list
• Press Ctrl+A
• Then press Ctrl+Shift+A

Actual

• Ctrl+A selects HTML text content of folder pane
• Subsequent Ctrl+Shift+A additionally selects HTML text content of message list
• Note: These are not item selections, but just text selections (which is completely unwanted and pointless)
• Pretty hard to get rid of text selection in message list (only clicking on another folder or quick filter's search box unselects)

Expected

• On Windows and Linux, Ctrl+A must select all messages in message list. By analogy, Cmd+A on Mac.
• Ctrl+Shift+A must select the entire thread of the currently selected (& focused) message.

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Reporter, please retest...
I can't reproduce this with current nightly on Mac

Comment 3

[bbhtt]

Ctrl+A now does nothing (it doesn't select the contents from folder pane like it was doing and doesn't select the messages). Ctrl+Shift+A now seems to selects the messages.

Tested with 111.0a1 (2023-02-12). I'm on Linux.

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Wfm on 112.0a1 (2023-02-16) (64-bit), Win10.
Per Bug 1816613 Comment 3, also wfm on Linux (that comment also has a range of changesets which might have fixed this).

bbhtt (reporter), can you confirm if Ctrl+A now works correctly for you on the latest update, 112.0a1 (2023-02-16) (64-bit)?

Comment 5

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I can confirm comment 3. Ctrl+A does nothing, and Ctrl+Shift+A selects all he content of the thread pane (not message selections). This is on linux.

Comment 6

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Magnus Melin [:mkmelin] from comment #5)

I can confirm comment 3. Ctrl+A does nothing, and Ctrl+Shift+A selects all he content of the thread pane (not message selections). This is on linux.

Which version of Thunderbird?

Comment 7

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Gah, I had tested a slightly old daily. Re-tested with 2023-02-16 now and it's working!!

Comment 8

[bbhtt]

(In reply to Thomas D. (:thomas8) from comment #4)

Wfm on 112.0a1 (2023-02-16) (64-bit), Win10.
Per Bug 1816613 Comment 3, also wfm on Linux (that comment also has a range of changesets which might have fixed this).

bbhtt (reporter), can you confirm if Ctrl+A now works correctly for you on the latest update, 112.0a1 (2023-02-16) (64-bit)?

Yes it is working on 112.0a1 (2023-02-16). Thanks!