409782 - File menu (and other menus) does not drop down (respond to mouse or Alt+F) when F11 full screen or when menus collapsed

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[RBL]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SeaMonkey/1.1.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071128 SeaMonkey/1.1.7

The _F_ile menu does not drop down when Navigator is in full-screen mode (F11) or if the menu bar has been collapsed. Restoring Navigator or un-collapsing the menu bar does not restore _F_ile menu function. Spawning a new window (Ctrl+N) does restore _F_ile menu function. ALSO: When Navigator is full-screen or with menu bar collapsed, Alt+ menu keys do not work for most menu items.  Alt+E does work, after which you can use arrow keys to navigate. But all menu hotkeys should work regardless of whether the menu bar is visible or not.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Navigator, press F11 or collapse the menu bar.
2. Press Alt+F. The menu does not respond.
3. Restore Navigator (F11) or uncollapse the menu bar. Try to click the File menu. It depresses but does not drop down.
Actual Results:  
File menu does not respond.

Expected Results:  
File menu (and all other menus on the menu bar) should respond to events.

Comment 1

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Can you reproduce with SeaMonkey v1.1.9 ?

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

RBL in future please file one issue per bug.
You have list two main issues
1. menu not being restored
2. menus keys should work if no menu displayed

#1 sounds vaguely familiar as on old bug that I haven't seen in years.
#2 - Serge, it's never worked this way, correct? If so, it's either WONTFIX or ENH

Comment 3

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Serge, I'm adding you because I think you got no bugmail for comment #2 where Wayne was asking you a question. ;-)

Comment 4

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> #2 - Serge, it's never worked this way, correct? If so, it's either WONTFIX or
> ENH

I'm not familiar with how either FullScreen or CollapsedMenuBar work.
I guess Neil is the one to tell and decide.

***

Fwiw,

[Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1pre) Gecko/2008062902 SeaMonkey/2.0a1pre] (nightly) (W2Ksp4)

Collapsed menu bar: neither Alt+F nor Alt+E work. [I would think this is not a bug.]
"Restored" menu bar: everything seems to work as it should.

FullScreen mode: Alt+F/Alt+E don't work, but I need to press Esc for F11 to work again. [At least, this seems to be a (separate) bug...]
"Restored" mode: everything seems to work as it should.

Comment 5

[jasdeckard]

Seamonkey 1.1.16
WinXP 32 SP3
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090403 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 Mnenhy/0.7.6.666

Dudes,  I can totally confirm this!  Just try some permutations and you will see for yourself.

If you press Alt+F in a "normal" window the file menu opens fine.  If you immediately press F11 (full screen) and Alt+F, the file menu will open fine.  If you press F11 again (normal window) and F11 again (full screen) Alt+F will not show the file menu.  You have to press Alt+F in a "normal" window each time before pressing F11 to get Alt+F to work in full screen.

I like to use F11 and Alt+F to print full screen maps from Google maps so it would be really nice if this could be fixed.

Thanks

Comment 6

[[e-mail]]

Well in that case you can at least still press Ctrl+P to print.

Comment 8

[Andrew G]

The fact of the matter is that Alt+F does NOT bring up the file menu whilst in full screen mode (eg F11 mode).  So when a number of tabs are open on the screen, it is tedious to have to move the mouse to the top of the screen and then physically hit the x on the tab to close it.  For those who use keyboard shortcuts, it would be far easier to just hit alt+F (file menu) then (c) for close tab.  So my vote for this bug to be fixed.

Comment 9

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0.2pre) Gecko/20110517 Firefox/4.0.2pre SeaMonkey/2.1.1pre

Even in F11 full screen mode, Alt+F opens the File menu (and Alt+E the Edit menu, Alt+H the Help menu, etc.); but I am on Linux.

SeaMonkey 1.1.x is dead. Does someone still have this problem in a current build (2.0.14 or later, or preferably 2.1 or later)?

Comment 10

[therube]

WFM, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20110511 Firefox/4.0.1 SeaMonkey/2.1

Broken-ish, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110420 SeaMonkey/2.0.14

In 2.0, Alt+H H does open up Help, & Alt+F Alt+N Alt+B does bring up a new Window, so the keyboard shortcuts are working, but there is no visual indication of same.

Comment 11

[[e-mail]]

This was incidentally fixed by bug 540629.