257367 - No access to Suite/TB in Status Bar or Menu

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Calendar :: General, defect)

Description

[Matthias Buecher]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803

When only the calendar window is left you can not get back to any browser, mail
or whatever.
The "quick access" in the lower left corner of the status bar are missing, also
the possibility to choose a component via the "Tools" menu.
Using TB 0.9.3 and Calendar 2004080916.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the Mozilla application you installed the Calendar in.
2. Open a browser (suite/ff) or a mail directory (suite/tb) window.
3. Open a calendar window.
4. Close all non-calendar windows.
5. Try to access a browser or mail directory window.

Actual Results:  
No possibility to reach another component.

Expected Results:  
Possibility to access another component via the "quick access" part of the lower
left status bar or the "Tools" menu.

Btw TB (and maybe FF) is missing the "quick access" part of the lower left
status bar too.

Comment 1

[Martin Bagge / brother]

This an enhancement, please update the severity option.

I think this should be dealt with before the next release though.

Comment 2

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

imo it is an enhancement, yes, but of "normal" severity, since it causes the
users application to be left unaccessable.

Marking new, OS/Hardware All

Comment 3

[Georg Dembowski]

Hi,

IMHO this is important as it damages the "suite" image/perception of users :(
The mozilla suite hotkeys (ctrl+1 for browser etc) are a very important tool for
efficient suit usage, concerning especially power users - which are an
interesing target group for Calendar and Mozilla, as they might contribute. 

2 Examples to support my "thesis":

When being in Calendar and seeing an event, I might wanna mail to someone a
"postpone meeting" message. I expect that pressing Ctrl+M allows me to do so,
just like everywhere else - but it does not work. OK, so I'll switch to
messenger by Ctrl+2. Oh no, does not work neither. I'll have to use Alt+Tab,
look for the messenger icon and scroll trough all open apps. Nasty.

Ctrl+N opens a new navigator/browser window in all parts of the suite, but in
Calendar. IMHO this _extremely_ known hotkey shall not be broken. I propose
ctrl+e with e for "new _E_vent", just like ctrl+m for "new _M_essage" and ctrl+n
for "new _N_avigator window". Also change the access key in "menu - file - new
event" to alt+e" to keep on having one consistent key.

I hope you can empathise a little better now. At least to me it is extremely
disturbing as all other parts of the suite work like that, so I'm repeatingly
behaving "wrong".... :-(

Tell me where I can see how the hotkeys, status bar icons and menu entries are
done in other mozilla parts and I'll do my best to adapt it to calendar. (also
personal mail to [e-mail], please :-)

Georg

Comment 4

[eyv]

*** Bug 245273 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 5

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

XPI only 

-> WONTFIX