181955 - Command+n does not open new navigator when in bookmark management mode

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: UI Events & Focus Handling, enhancement)

Description

[Tom Schneider]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

I usually use command+n to open new windows (rather than command+1).
Although command+1 works in bookmark management mode, command+n
doesn't do anything.  When I first stumbled into this I was flumuxed -
I didn't know about command+1 and command+n is more natural.

So the enhancement is to assign command+n to open a new navigator
window when in the bookmark management mode, and to focus it on
the new window.  It would be logical and consistent.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click on Bookmarks in the nav panel
2. Click on Manage Bookmarks.. in the drop down menu
3. Try to create a new navigator widow.  On the mac
this is command N.
4. Nothing happens.

Actual Results:  
nothing happens!

Expected Results:  
Create a new Navigator window and shift focus to that.

Originally this was bug 181817:
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181817

Comment 1

[Aaron Leventhal]

Is this a mac only bug? Or should it cover Ctrl+N on other platforms?

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

This is about more than key commands. File/New Navigator Window (command+n) is
not available from the Manage Bookmarks window, while Window/Navigator
(command+1) is. The same is true of other Toolslike Password Manager, DOM
Inspector, etc.

This is the sort of problem that tends to expose the weakness of monolithic
all-in-one app suites like Mozilla.

Comment 3

[Tom Schneider]

> This is the sort of problem that tends to expose the weakness of monolithic
> all-in-one app suites like Mozilla.

Well only sort of.  It's just that somebody didn't THINK about a consistent
set of commands!

Any chance this will get some work done on it?
Seems like it would be trivial.

Comment 4

[louis bennett]

confirming

looks like Edit > Sort Folder by Name is overriding command-N.

Comment 5

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.

Comment 6

[Leonard Bettcher]

Attachment: assnivfomy19883941.txt

Thanks from quipowoomo1979.