271315 - tbird on mac should use command-n as new message shortcut

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Mitchell Lewandowski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/125.5.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/125.11
Build Identifier: version 0.9 (20041103)

Apple Mail uses command-n to open a new compose window, which seems more natural than 
command-shift-m.  Currently, command-n is not assigned in Thunderbird, and it seems to make sense 
to transition to this shortcut to make it easier for Mail users to convert.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Thunderbird
2. Hit Command-N On The Keyboard
Actual Results:  
Nothing Happens.

Expected Results:  
Thunderbird should open a new compose window.

Comment 1

[Blixman]

The current shortcut is a legacy from the suite, where command-n was used for
something else. You might even want to assign two shortcuts to the same?

Comment 2

[Josh Aas]

taking

Comment 3

[Josh Aas]

I'm not going to get to this, so back to mscott.

I think this should be a blocker since it is a big UI problem on the Mac and it
shouldn't be hard to fix.

Command-N is the standard new message command on Mac OS X, and it is also
standard for creating new documents in document editing Mac OS X applications.
New users are likely to be very turned off when Command-N doesn't work. Doesn't
matter if both keyboard shortcuts, Command-N and the current one work, but
Command-N needs to be the default, showing in the menu.

Comment 4

[Gary Elshaw]

Is it ok to say ditto? Command-N would be great.

Comment 5

[J Luh]

*** Bug 322486 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 6

[Greg K.]

It would be worth considering this cross-platform. The shortcut is Ctrl+M on Windows, when Ctrl+N would be more appropriate. (Of course, Ctrl+M is a leftover from the Seamonkey all-in-one days.)

Comment 7

[Scott MacGregor]

at least on windows, ctrl-m and ctrl-n both open a new compose window. Is that not the case for 1.5.0.2 on mac?

Comment 8

[Greg K.]

(In reply to comment #7)
> at least on windows, ctrl-m and ctrl-n both open a new compose window. Is that
> not the case for 1.5.0.2 on mac?

Nope. Only Command+Shift+M does New Compose Window. (Command+M is reserved for the OS Minimize-to-Dock command.)

On Windows, I do see that both work; however, Ctrl+M is what's shown in the menu. Maybe TB should show Ctrl+N for consistencys sake, though.

Comment 9

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: the fix

1) Make Ctrl-N the default key we show in the File Menu for the 3-pane and the compose window for opening a new compose window. Ctrl-M still works as before, but ctrl-N is what we show in the UI.

2) In the address book ctrl-N opens a new address book card. We show Ctrl-M in the AB UI for opening a new compose window.

3) On the mac, use command-N instead of command-shift-N and show that in the UI for compose and the 3-pane. Same renaming rules listed in (1) and (2) apply. Command-shift-M still opens a compose window, but is not shown in the UI.

Comment 10

[Scott MacGregor]

Comment on attachment 231813 [details] [diff] [review]
the fix

Fixing it this way instead of changing the actual values of newMessageCmd.key and newMessageCmd2.key, means the localizations won't have to be updated for this to just work.

Comment 11

[Josh Aas]

Comment on attachment 231813 [details] [diff] [review]
the fix

great!