305867 - Setting text color repeatedly takes too many steps

Status: NEW

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Ric Steinberger]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6

To highlight text now takes 3 steps after selecting the text.  1) Click the
"Choose color for text" box, 2) select a color, 3) click OK.  Why can this not
work in one step, as it does in Outlook?  Outlook always displays a little box
(like Thunderbird does) and it's always the last selected color - automatically
updated.  Clicking that color box will color the selected text in 1 step.  Can
you please simplify/fix the Thunderbird process so that only one step is needed
if the previous color is what you want?  Thank you.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

Shift-Click should work, see Core bug 72090.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

*** Bug 326025 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Bug 90665 is an RFE for a general Repeat Formatting command
Bug 90670 is about reworking the color-picker to be a popup-menu -- would reduce the number of clicks but still require renavigating the popup for every color change.
Bug 97840 appears to be about the worthlessness of the background-color-picker in that toolbar button (since changing that color changes it for the entire document).

(In reply to comment #1)
> Shift-Click should work, see Core bug 72090.

That is: select the text, Shift+Click on the color-swatch.