420096 - View -> Sort By has two shortcuts with the letter G

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 275871

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Vesselin Obrechkov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9b3) Gecko/2008020514 Firefox/3.0b3
Build Identifier: 20080213

In the View->Sort By menu there are 2 shortcuts, both with the 'G' key:

Ta(g)s and (G)roup By Sort

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click View
2. Click Sort-By
3. Press the 'G' key
Actual Results:  
By pressing the G key it keeps jumping from one menu item to another.

Expected Results:  
Have a single shortcut for each item so they can be easily accessed using the keyboard.

The Group By Sort feature gets reset pretty much every time you change sorting or Search for something so having a quick and easy way to turn it back on will improve the user experience for people who prefer to sort their mail this way.

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

If you press G a second time it alternates between the two choices.

Basically bug 275871. 

Comment 2

[Gary Kwong [:gkw] [:nth10sd] (NOT official MoCo now)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> If you press G a second time it alternates between the two choices.
> 
> Basically bug 275871. 
> 

Duping.

Comment 3

[Steve Simms]

I don't think this one is a dup of bug 275871 -- that one is asking that we remove the Group By keystroke altogether, which would eliminate the problem, but if that bug doesn't get implemented, we'd need to revisit this one.  Since several commenters have requested that it be kept, but turned into a toggle command, that seems like a distinct possibility.

Would it make more sense to mark this bug as depending on that one?