326129 - "View:" selection widget retains focus after change. Focus should revert to message list.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 279001

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Zach Bagnall]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051230 Firefox/1.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8) Gecko/20051230 Firefox/1.5

In 1.5, when you select a different filter from the view list, the focus stays with that widget. The problem is that if you don't notice this behavior and hit Ctrl-A to select all, it actually selects all messages *AND* switches the view option back to "All" (from the "a" presumably). If you then hit Delete, you just deleted every message in the folder instead of only the ones you expected.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use the mouse to change the View filter from All to something else
2. Press Ctrl-A
Actual Results:  
View filter reverts to "All"
All messages selected

Expected Results:  
Only messages matching the selected filter shown
All of those messages selected

Have just lost two weeks of email through this behavior change.

Comment 1

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

I'm not able to reproduce this.  The only time I see the focus remain on the View selector is if I tab to it or use Alt+I to shift focus to it; selecting via mouse click, the focus goes "somewhere" -- not on any visible component as far as I can tell.  <tab> moves focus to Folder pane, <shift+tab> moves to Message pane.