431104 - Search Bar fields non-iterating with keyboard accelerator.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Jud Valeski]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5
Build Identifier: version 2.0.0.12 (20080213)

Firefox allows you to scroll through the search bar search engines using CTRL-UP|DOWN ARROW (COMMAND key instead of CTRL on mac). Thunderbird should allow the user to scroll through the various search fields (e.g. To, To & cc, Subject, etc) with the same keystroke combos.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. COMMAND-K to put focus into the search bar
2. COMMAND-UP or DOWN arrow keys to scroll through the various search field options.
3. notice that scrolling through doesn't actually happen.

Comment 1

[ovidiu]

related to bug 372068

Comment 2

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Marco, is there a way to access this part of the search field without mouse?  I thought there was.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Marco, is there a way to access this part of the search field without mouse?  I
> thought there was.

no word yet from Marco, but cc asuth since he is playing in this area, and bryan

Comment 4

[Andrew Sutherland [:asuth] (he/him)]

The current trunk builds try and do this, but it looks like they screw it up.  Namely, if you look at the state of the menu, use control-up or control-down, and then look at the menu again, the checked item will change.  The trick is that no user feedback is given, and the search is most definitely not updated.  Which is to say, it is horribly busted.

However, if I push alt-up or alt-down, the popup shows up and I can select the search constraint I want and hit enter.  I vaguely expect that would be the 2.0.0.x "workaround".

Having said that, I'm not sure what kind of user feedback we should/could give for this.  Firefox at least has a favicon-ish thing that changes when you do control-up/control-down.  Quicksearch only has one icon ever.  We could popup the menu, visibly change the selection, and then hide the menu again (somewhat like a macro), but unless there's existing code we can use, that sounds like a difficult thing.

Comment 5

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Jud, thank you for filing this bug, which was helpful at the time.
However, we no longer support TB version 2, and the dropdown menu has been removed from the quick filter box and replaced by the secondary quick filter bar. So this bug no longer applies to the current version, which technically makes it invalid.