Closed Bug 308066 Opened 19 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Unable to type letters "c", "i", "j", "m", "r" in 'New Folder' sheet/dialog

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
Mail Window Front End
Platform:
PowerPC
macOS
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: brion, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/412.7 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/412.5
Build Identifier: version 1.5 Beta 1 (20050908)

When I open the "New Folder" dialog/sheet to create a new folder (either through 
File/New/Folder... or right-click/New Folder...) I find that typing the letters 
"c", "i", "j", "m", "r" into the folder name field fails. They appear to be 
activating menu shortcuts, which may produce effects on the underlying window 
(for instance 'r' marks a selected message as read) instead of putting letters 
into the folder name.

This is similar to bug 199019, and like it is a serious usability problem on the 
Mac.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select menu: File / New / Folder...
2. type "abcde"

Actual Results:  
"Name" field contains "abde". The "Message" menu flashed when the 'c' was 
pressed.

Expected Results:  
"Name" field should contain "abcde". No menus should flash.

Mac OS X 10.4.2; default theme; this is my main Thunderbird profile which I've 
been using for a year or so.

As a workaround for this problem, type a folder name in BBEdit or other 
application and use cut-and-paste.
Version: unspecified → 1.5
Is this another instance of 195979?
Brion, mcscott have checked in a fix for this (branch/trunk) - a workaround that simply removes single commandkeys (without modifier) from the menus. You can see the patch in bug 199019. So, the issue should be gone. Can you please check with a recent branch build and resolve the bug?

(In reply to comment #1)
> Is this another instance of 195979?
Yes.




Looks good on version 1.6a1 (20051104).

Any chance of this fix making it into 1.5?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
this is fixed in 1.5 too!
Hmm, are there any Shift+key shortcuts in the message menu that could be triggered when you name a folder?
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