202411 - Formatting Text Color [Format][Color] - shortcuts for Last color and OK don't work

Status: UNCONFIRMED

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

Description

[Tony McNamara]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030417
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030417

To change text color to the last one you set (e.g. to quickly change a bunch of
blocks to the same color), <alt-o> (format), C (color).  

Now you have a dialog with the previously-chosen color "Last picked color", with
L underlined... typically meaning "Hit <alt-L> to shortcut to this".  Neither L,
<alt-L>, <ctrl-L>, or <Shift-L> select it.  

Additionally, in Windows at any rate, <Enter> should select the default control
(OK); when in a multi-line text box, a modified (<Ctrl>, I believe) enter should
do it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open composer, highlight text
2.Open text color chooser (format - color)
3.Try to select last color using shortcut as per underlined "L"


Actual Results:  
Nothing.  To use the keyboard, I had to switch to tabbing.  (Not a big deal, but
incorrect.)

Expected Results:  
<alt-L> should behave as clicking the "last chosen color" button does.

Comment 1

[Eugene Kim]

This bug is still reproducible in Mozilla Build 2005010906, Windows XP.

"Additionally, in Windows at any rate, <Enter> should select the default control
(OK)...." - if you select a color, then you press enter, it works. But the other
bug still exists.

Finally, maybe the severity of this bug should be "trivial"...

Comment 2

[Matthew R. Howard, Sr.]

Mozilla 1.8b2 Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2)
Gecko/20050702

Bug is still present...

Comment 3

[Donna Kruse]

Composer is not available in the Minefield build.

Comment 4

[Onno Ekker [:nONoNonO UTC+1]]

Thunderbird does have a Compose Window with the same Format -> Text Color menu and there Alt+L for Last Picked Color doesn't work as expected either:
When you press Alt+L the ColorInput and ColorPickerSwatch aren't updated like when clicking the button, so you don't have a visual confirmation that the color will be changed.
Maybe this bug should be moved to MailNews Core?

Comment 5

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

Mass un-assigning bugs assigned to Aaron.

Comment 6

[kjell]

I can confirm this in TB 68.4.1. I do this often and it's very frustrating, just so you know.