267765 - Turning off grouping shifts focus to QuickSearch

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Eric Moritz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

When clicking on a column header to change the sorting, the focus is
automatically given to the search box.  When I try to Group by Sort by pressing
'g', the letter 'g' is typed into the search box instead of being recognized as
a keystroke to activate Grouping by Sort. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Activate Group by sort
2. Click on a column header to change sorting, (The application gives focus to
the search box)
3. Press the letter g in order to activate group by sorting

Actual Results:  
Focus is given to the search box when clicking on the header and the letter g is
typed into the search box

Expected Results:  
I expect the search box not to gain focus when changing the sorting

Comment 1

[Mike Fedyk]

Confirmed in win2k with TB 0.9

Heh, I even commented about it in bug 267727

Comment 2

[Max Waterman]

on Mac OS X too.

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 271302 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

The focus shifts to the QuickSearch when Grouping is turned off, whether 
that's by clicking a column header or by selecting  View|Sort By|Unthreaded.

Reproduced with TB 1.5rc2 and 1.6a1-1201, Win2K.  Not present in Seamonkey.
Seamonkey also has no shortcut, like TB's 'G', to enter grouping, so even if 
the focus did shift, there'd be no loss of function as entering grouping requires a menu selection.

Comment 5

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Bug 261331 has the same result from a slightly-different cause.

Comment 6

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

This is fixed on the branch and trunk by the patch for bug 311239.

Comment 7

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Whoops -- marking Fixed.