187004 - Open URL Service shortcut won't work until menu item has been manually selected

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Camino Graveyard :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

As seen on mailing list:

> I've noticed that the keyboard shortcut for the Open URL never works until I
> select it from the menu the first time. Anyone else seeing this?

I tried and can confirm that. Reproduce as follows (for example):

1. From within Mail.app, select a URL
2. Use the Shift-Cmd-U shortcut. Navigator should open a window, but doesn't.
3. Navigate to Mail | Services | Open URL in Navigator. Navigator will open a
window with the selected URL.
4. Close the window and try the Shift-Cmd-U shortcut again. This time, it'll work.

CC'ing original reporter.

Comment 1

[Michael Scheel]

When I ran into this bug working on my own Service, it seemed to happen for
every Service.  I asked on the cocoa-dev mailing list, and was told that this
was an OSX bug in Services, which apparently isn't very high priority.  To
reproduce, log off and back on, select some text in Terminal.app or Mail.app,
try a hotkeyed service like shift-cmd-Y for Make New Sticky, and it won't work.
 Simply opening the Application menu (i.e. "Terminal" or "Navigator") seems to
activate the hotkeys (you don't even need to open the Services Sub-menu)

To summarize, this isn't a Chimera bug, it's an Apple bug.

See also:
http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2002/Mar/25/servicehotkeysonlogin.txt
and
http://lists.apple.com/archives/cocoa-dev/2002/Mar/24/servicehotkeysonlogin.001.txt

Comment 2

[Sören 'Chucker' Kuklau (gone)]

True.