448569 - Attachment (detach/delete/save/etc) pop-up menu has Save As... disabled

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Richard Mlynarik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070206 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: 2.0.0.16 (20080707)

(I have no idea whether this problem is Macintosh UI specific or more generally broken.)

I have a test message with two attachments.  (It happens to be in my primary Drafts folder, but that's irrelevant.)  It is displayed in the message pane of a normal three-pane (Folders/Summary/Message) Thunderbird window.

I click-right (or control-click-left on a one-button Mac) on one of the attachments.

The menu items for "Open", "Save As...", "Detach..." and "Delete" are greyed out.

Only the non-attachment-specific items "Save All...", "Detach All..." and "Detete All..." are offerered.

WRONG.

It appears that unless I FIRST manually click-left on the attachment icon to "select" it (causing the background behind the icon to take on a darker shade), clicking right on it has no effect.  This is contrary to every UI expectation.  Clicking right ON an object should bring up the menu associated with that object.  End of story.

See screen snaps attachments bug-1-with-context.png and bug-1-no-context.png


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Display message with attachment
2 [review]. Click-right over attachment icon (without first clicking left on its icon)

Actual Results:  
"Open", "Save As...", "Detach..." and "Delete" menu items are not available

Expected Results:  
"Open", "Save As...", "Detach..." and "Delete" menu items should be available

There are so many bugs with the attachment context menu code...

Comment 1

[Richard Mlynarik]

Attachment: Wrong -- menu items not offered

Comment 2

[Richard Mlynarik]

Attachment: After workaround of first clicking-left to select attachment, THEN clicking-right for menu

Comment 4

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

WFM, tried thunderbird3?

Comment 5

[Richard Mlynarik]

Appears to work in Thunderbird 3.0 -- which has other new problems and irritations, but this one appears fixed, thanks -- MacOS 10.6.2.

Comment 6

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Thx for checking.

->WFM (FIXED is used only when known code changes resolved the issue)