1940854 - gloda search results listing: cannot open specific emails by keyboard (e.g. by enter while focus on its subject)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 526311

(Thunderbird :: Search, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Melançon]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:134.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/134.0

Steps to reproduce:

E-mails in the search results listing cannot be opened via keyboard, or at least not the same way they can be in the regular listing (enter) or with any key combination i could think of.

1. Press ctrl K
2. Search for something ("example") and press enter
3. Tab past all your filters, "Show results as list", "Toggle timeline", and "Sort by Date" to select a an e-mail subject.
4. Try to open that e-mail with your keyboard (enter, ctrl o, shift enter, space, enter…)

On 128.5.2esr (64-bit), apologies if this is already fixed; i did not realize the plain thunderbird in NixOS was the ESR.

Operating System: NixOS 25.05
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.9.0
Qt Version: 6.8.1
Kernel Version: 6.6.69 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

Actual results:

Nothing happens, no matter what is pressed on the keyboard while the subject of the e-mail is selected, it will not open in its own tab so that one can read and reply to the e-mail.

Expected results:

Tab to e-mail subject, press enter, you are in a tab with that e-mail open.

"Show results as list" would be a workaround (there, you can tab to get to the e-mail subject, then press space to select it, and finally enter to open it) BUT there's no way to press the "Show results as list" link/button with the keyboard either.

I hope i'm missing something here but the default accessibility is shockingly bad :-/

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Same on Mac. And it fails on Windows in version 102, so I don't this was ever possible. One thing that does work is space bar triggers "Show results as list".

So I think we make this a duplicate of bug 526311