234877 - Alt-E hotkey conflict, Mail Compose window, German

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Localization, defect)

Description

[Clemens]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

In the german version the 4th menu-point by writing a mail is "Einfuegen",
translation from "insert". The capital-E is underlined. But if you are really in
the mail-window and you press ALT-E the menu-point "Einfuegen" is not choosen,
but changes to inactivity and grey.

Clemens

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. german version
2. CTRL+2 (mail)
3. new mail
4. go to the text-window
5. press ALT+E for "Einfuegen" (insert)

Actual Results:  
the menu-point "Einfuegen" with underlined capital-E becomes grey, inactiv - you
cannot choose

Expected Results:  
open the pulldown-window "Einfuegen" (insert)

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Sounds like the E hotkey is also being used by one of the controls in the top 
part of the mail.  That mail menu will grey out (as will the Format one) when 
the focus is not in the body.

In the English version, we have R for 'From', S for 'Subject' and C for 
'Attachments' -- what are the equivalent hotkeys for those controls in the 
German version?

Comment 2

[OstGote!]

Attachment: focus in the body text (German)

Comment 3

[OstGote!]

Attachment: focus in subject bar after pressing Alt+E (German)

Comment 4

[OstGote!]

Confirming.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Sounds like the E hotkey is also being used by one of the controls in the top 
> part of the mail.  That mail menu will grey out (as will the Format one) when 
> the focus is not in the body.
Ok, Insert/Format are only shown if you have HTML-Composing on.
Yeah, there is a menu E_infügen (Insert) in the German version. This is in
conflict with the hotkey for Be_treff (Subject).

> In the English version, we have R for 'From', S for 'Subject' and C for 
> 'Attachments' -- what are the equivalent hotkeys for those controls in the 
> German version?
V for "Von" (From), E for 'Betreff' (Subject) and M for 'Attachments'.

EInfügen is only active if the focus is in the body. If you press Alt+E you
always go the subject bar (see image), not to the menu. Therefor the menu entry
is greyed out (see cursors in the images). You can access the menu only by mouse!

So it is a conflict in the hotkeys. The problem occurs only if have
HTML-Composing for e-mails on. -> intl issue?

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Localization issue, not international.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Clemens, if you're comfortable with zipping/unzipping files and making minor 
edits, you can fix this on your own build without waiting for Mozilla to get to 
it.  In the Mozilla\chrome directory is the localization file -- I guess it 
would be called de-DE.jar (?) for you.  To make the change:  

Close Mozilla.  [obligatory safety note: make a backup of the JAR file before 
editing.]  Open up that archive (it's basically just a zip file) and locate the 
file messengercompose.dtd.  Extract that file and edit it: at the top are the 
labels and hotkeys for the header section.

Change subject.accesskey to whichever key works for you (making sure you don't 
create another conflict, of course).  Zip it back into the JAR file.  Restart 
Mozilla.

I think it's easiest if you zip and unzip to the directory that's stored within 
the JAR -- that will place the file in 
  [PathToJarDirectory]\locale\de-DE\messenger\messengercompose

You ought to be able to make a similar change to the menu item rather than the 
Subject -- but I can't find the Insert menu in the .DTD file!  It has to be 
somewhere in there, since it was translated for you.

Comment 7

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 8

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

This is WFM Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; de; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081204 Thunderbird/3.0b1

If you see this in seamonkey trunk, please reopen the bug as product seamonkey

Comment 10

[Jens Hatlak (:InvisibleSmiley)]

Confirming WFM with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081230 SeaMonkey/2.0a3pre

(nowadays "Betreff" accesskey is "R", thus no conflict)