373889 - Accelerator key replacement Meta doesn't behave as expected when selecting threaded messages

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Mats Larsson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070226 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: version 2 beta 2 (20070123)

I do reassigning the accelerator key (from Ctrl to Meta in this case) like this in user.js:

user_pref("ui.key.accelKey", 224);

After that I can't do a Meta-Shift-A in order to select (highlight) all messages in current thread in the header pane. Instead it selects all messages in hte header pane.

This reassign has been working for years so something has happened after version 1.5 which broke it.

If I don't do this reassign it works as exepected but for me it is much more convenient to use Meta as the accelerator key so please try to fix it.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Duplicate of bug 361417 i suppose?

Comment 2

[Mats Larsson]

It might be connected to that one but it's not a duplicate. For me Ctrl-Shift-A works but not Meta-Shift-A after I reassign the accelerator key. Meta-Shift-A select all mails in the folder instead of all mails in current thread.

Comment 3

[emily chen]

Confirm this bug on Solaris neveda_61 + Thunderbird 2beta2;
I can also reproduce this bug on Linux, So change the platform to Linux. 

Comment 4

[emily chen]

This bug has been fixed on Trunk, TB3a1, both Solaris and Linux. 

Comment 5

[Mats Larsson]

The bug is still there in version 2.0 RC1 (Solaris SPARC build, User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070411)). Will it be fixed before 2.0 final is released?