Closed Bug 341176 Opened 18 years ago Closed 17 years ago

Strange reaction on focus movement by keyboard

Categories

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

x86
Windows 98
defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: arkady.belousov, Assigned: mscott)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; ru) Opera 8.54
Build Identifier: http://mozilla-chi.osuosl.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.4/win32/ru/Thunderbird%20Setup%201.5.0.4.exe

Using keyboard (instead mouse) to move focus between panes is strange.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select some letter in Thread (headers) pane.
2. Move focus into body pane (for example, to scroll body content by PgDn/PgUp or copy it into buffer through ^A, ^Ins). For this Tab should be pressed three times (instead one).
3.1. Try to delete letter: press Del key.
Or
3.2. Click by mouse in body pane and press Del key - action ignored.
Or
3.3. Click by mouse on letter header (in Thread pane), click in body and press Del key.
Actual Results:  
2. One Tab moves focus to Subject: field in body pane header, second Tab moves focus in Date: field, and only third Tab places focus in body. Note: From: field (where is not shown real address!) is skipped.
3.1. Action ignored.
3.1. Action ignored.
3.1. Action performed.

Expected Results:  
2. First Tab should move focus from Thread pane immediately to body pane. (And From: field should show real address also!)
3. Any mentioned action should delete letter.
(In reply to comment #0)
> Expected Results:  
> 2. First Tab should move focus from Thread pane immediately to body pane.

This is bug 242468


>    (And From: field should show real address also!)

Tools | Options | Advanced | General:
  [] Show only display name for people in my address book


> 3. Any mentioned action should delete letter.

This is the problem described at bug 122854 comment 8.  Altho I can reproduce this in 1.5, the <del> key works as expected with TB 2a1-0604.
> > 2. First Tab should move focus from Thread pane immediately to body pane.
> This is bug 242468

     Yes.

     Except, that there sayed "focus goes to first the Subject line, then the 
Date line" - but there are no header lines, there is only fields in line, which is useless, because it completely duplicates line from thread pane. And I not found options, which show (selected) header fields inside message body _as lines_.

     And I agree with bug 242468 comment 3 - except, that I think, Up/Down and Left/Right is more suitable keys to move focus _inside_ header fields.

> >    (And From: field should show real address also!)
> Tools | Options | Advanced | General:
>   [] Show only display name for people in my address book

     No - this option is (and was) cleared without effect. Ie. there always shown sender name (without address) in line between thread pane and message body.

> > 3. Any mentioned action should delete letter.
> This is the problem described at bug 122854 comment 8.

     Also in bug 122854 comment 9 - yes, precisely.

> Altho I can reproduce
> this in 1.5, the <del> key works as expected with TB 2a1-0604.

     Then will wait, when this fix will be released, to confirm bug closing.
(In reply to comment #2)
> > > 2. First Tab should move focus from Thread pane immediately to body pane.
> > This is bug 242468
> 
>      Yes.
> 
>      Except, that there sayed "focus goes to first the Subject line, then
> the  Date line" - but there are no header lines, there is only fields in
> line, which is useless, because it completely duplicates line from thread
> pane. 

That's because you've collapsed the header pane ("brief headers") -- clicking the [+] icon at the left hand of the header pane will expand it to show individual lines for different headers.

> And I not found options, which show (selected) header fields
> inside message body _as lines_.
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
No, the headers are shown in a separate envelope.  (See bug 9942.)

> > >    (And From: field should show real address also!)
> > Tools | Options | Advanced | General:
> >   [] Show only display name for people in my address book
> 
>      No - this option is (and was) cleared without effect. 

Right -- in Brief Headers mode, only the name is shown.  See bug 305204.

> Then will wait, when this fix will be released, to confirm bug closing.

OK, I'm going to close this as WorksForMe (for that symptom).  If you encounter the problem after 2.0 is released, feel free to reopen the bug.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 17 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
2.0.0.6: Del (topics 3.x in my list) now looks working, and Tabbing issues (topic 2) is duplicate (bug 242468), so I close this my report.
Resolution: WORKSFORME → FIXED
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