354781 - Menu>Message>Forward As ... Touch Type don't Pop-up

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[HUI, Arion (Mr)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Firefox/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060909 Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666

In the 3-pane "Classic View" Mail window "Layout", during touch typing (not using a mouse or any pointing device), pressing [Alt][M][O][I], the "Forward As" sub-menu did not pop-up. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
01. thunderbird.exe -safe-mode 
02. In Thunderbird, press [Alt][V][L][C] for 3-pane "Classic View" Mail window "Layout". 
03. In the "Message Listing Panel" (_NOT_ "Open Message in a New Window"), select any mail message record. 
04. Press [Alt][M][O][I] 
05. Submenu."Forward As".{Inline,Attachment} did NOT pop-up as expected. 
06. In the "Message Listing Panel" (_NOT_ "Open Message in a New Window"), select any mail message record. 
07. Press [Alt][M][L][4] 
08. Submenu."Label".{0,1,2,3,4,5} did pop-up as expected. 
09. In the "Message Listing Panel", press [Enter] to "Open Message in a New Window", select any mail message record. 
10. Press [Alt][M][O][I] 
11. Submenu."Forward As".{Inline,Attachment} did pop-up as expected. 
Actual Results:  
Bug successfully repoduced in all win32 en-US versions, 1.5.0.7 (20060909), 1.5.0.4 (20060516), 1.5.0.2 (20060308). Version 3 alpha 1 (20060928) did not have this problem. 

Expected Results:  
When touch typing Menu > Message > Forward As > Inline pop up as expected. In Message Listing Panel (_NOT_ "Open Message in a New Window"), in the 3-pane "Classic View" Mail window "Layout", submenu."Forward As".{Inline,Attahcment} pop-up as submenu."Label".{0,1,2,3,4,5} when touch typing without using a mouse or any pointing device. 

Affected group: Visually Impaired People (VIP) 


Affected Thunderbird versions: 
(1.) 1.5.0.7 (20060909) win32 en-US 
(2.) 1.5.0.4 (20060516) win32 en-US 
(3.) 1.5.0.2 (20060308) win32 en-US 

NOT affected Thunderbird version: 
(1.) 3 alpha 1 (20060928) 


Affected location: Menu > Message > Forward As > { Inline , Attachment } 


mozillaZine: Posted at 19 May 2006 05:51 am GMT

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Since trunk is not affected, did you try a branch build?
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/nightly/latest-mozilla1.8/

These kind of minor bugs wouldn't get fixed in security releases, so if it works there I suggest you resolve this bug WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Reproduced with TB 1.5.0.7; working as expected with 2b1-0927.