327926 - Right clicking in the body area of the message composition window should push keyboard focus there, before posting context menu

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Composition, defect)

Description

[S. Tringali]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Fedora/1.7.6-1.2.5

When you right click in the message body area, it fails to gain the keyboard focus.  This makes for entertaining problems as I constantly paste text intended for the body into the "To" field.

This is doubly annoying since multi-line text somehow makes it into a single-line text field, which is difficult to delete.  So I usually close the window to start over.

But, I have LDAP auto-completion turned on, so the window often "thinks" for a bit, if not crashes.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Gather a lot of text in the clipboard that you will mail to someone by pasting.
2. Open a message composition window - keyboard focus will be in the "To" field
3. Hover mouse over text body area, and right click - note the keyboard focus is in the "To" field, but the context menu appears in the message body!
4. Click Paste 

Actual Results:  
Text pastes into the "To" field, and if you have LDAP lookup turn on, you might get a crash as it tries to autocomplete it.

Expected Results:  
Text should be pasted into the body field.  But also:

- The context menu and keyboard focus should never get out of sync (as in step 3).
- The keyboard focus always should move to where I click.
- If it's not obvious, after pasting, the keyboard focus should remain there.


Workaround - I have to remember to always left click the body field before right clicking.

If I use a plain GTK application like gtk-demo, the focus-follows-right-click behavior works as expected.

Comment 1

[zug_treno]

(In reply to comment #0)
> When you right click in the message body area, it fails to gain the keyboard
> focus.  This makes for entertaining problems as I constantly paste text
> intended for the body into the "To" field.

Reproducible with SeaMonkey 1.0/Linux. Right clicking in the Subject: or Attachments: field seems to work as expected. 

> This is doubly annoying since multi-line text somehow makes it into a
> single-line text field, which is difficult to delete.  

Related to Core bug 51121?

Comment 2

[Hermann Schwab]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.9a1) Gecko/20060212 SeaMonkey/1.5a
Testing using plain/text:
opened mail composition window, right-clicked, cursor was seen correctly, but 'Paste' wasn't enabled, 'paste as quotation' was, but didn't paste to the body.
Closed mail, reopened, right-clicked, and 'Paste' was enabled and working as expected.

Are you composing textmail, or HTML-mail?

Comment 3

[Andrew Schultz]

confirmed with linux seamonkey trunk 2006022112

Comment 4

[S. Tringali]

I was composing as plain text.  For what it's worth, I've never seen this on Windows, only on Linux/GTK.  

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

tony, do you see this?

WFM windows Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1pre) Gecko/2008062902 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

Comment 6

[Andrew Schultz]

this is probably linux-only.  I still see it with a trunk build.

Comment 7

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1a2pre) Gecko/2008080300 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre

After steps 1-4 of comment #0, I see the last line (only) of the clipboard text in the "To:" area. In this case I used the bugmail for comment #5 above (with Ctrl+U Ctrl+A Ctrl+C) so the "To:" text was "You are on the CC list for the bug".

Comment 8

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Still see this?

Comment 9

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #8)
> Still see this?

I don't know, it's been years since I last used either Thunderbird or SeaMonkey Mail. The last time I tried, after a disk crash and reinstall, I didn't find how to configure them to access the POP3 servers to which I am subscribed.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Christian, can you reproduce?

Comment 11

[Christian Riechers]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #10)

Christian, can you reproduce?

I can't. Tested with TB78.7.1 64-bit on OpenSUSE Linux 15.2, Gnome 3.34.
Upon opening a new Write Window the cursor is positioned in the To: field as described by the Reporter.
Right-clicking in the body area visibly moves the cursor there, and the text from the clipboard is pasted right into the message body, as one would expect.