378433 - While in a custom view, selecting all mails using CTRL/A cancels custom view

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 191801

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect)

Description

[Heinrich Rebehn]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1

To help organize mail in my inbox, i created custom views.
Example: View "freebsd-stable" selects all mails where "to or cc" contains "stable".
While in my Inbox, i select the above custom view. I hit CTRL/A to select all mails in order to move them to a different folder. BUT: Hitting CTRL/A cancels the custom view, thereby selecting *all* mails in my Inbox, which is not what i want.
If i select/open at least one mail before hitting CTRL/A, the problem does *not* occur

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Mailnews
2. In your Inbox, select a custom view (The predefined view "Unread" will also do
3. Hit CTRL/A
Actual Results:  
The view is reset to "All" (Provided no mail was selected/open)

Expected Results:  
All Mails within the view should be seleted, but the view should not be reset

Bug has been present for quite a few versions now. Don't know exactly when it was introduced.
Although there is a workaround (select at least one mail), it is quite annoying when you move your entire Inbox into a subfolder.

Comment 1

[Karsten Düsterloh]

WFM with <http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/releases/1.1.1/contrib/seamonkey-1.1.1.en-US.linux-i686-gtk1.tar.gz> on Suse9.

Comment 2

[Karsten Düsterloh]

On a second thought, I think the focus is still in the dropdown list, thus the CTRL gets dropped and A selects the first entry with A in the dropdown, which happens to be All in en (or even de, incidently).
I suppose you get a save dialog when hitting ^S instead of ^A?

Comment 3

[Heinrich Rebehn]

You are right, the dropdown list still has focus.
^S will bring up the save dialog.
What's strange: If i hit A, the view is reset to "All"
If i hit ^A, the view is reset to "All" AND all mails are selected.
So the "A" part seems to be used twice.

BTW, i am using the US version.