448971 - Contacts Sidebar: Select all (Ctrl+A) for addresses does not work

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Compose Window, defect)

Description

[Frantisek]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en; rv:1.9.0.2pre) Gecko/2008072422 Camino/2.0a1pre (like Firefox/3.0.2pre)
Build Identifier: v2 and v3

When I compose new window display addressbook in sidebar choose one of addressbooks mark first contact and hit apple+A for select all nothing happen. Only way is to select contact manually with shift.
Thank good in v3a there is already Add to Bcc button.
Thare is also no way how to delete inserted contacts at once if you insert them accidentaly. I will post it separately.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Compose new message.
2. Show addressbook in side bar
3. choose soem addressbook
4. mark first contact
5. press apple+A

Actual Results:  
nothing happen

Expected Results:  
all contact in addressbook windows in sidebar would be selected.

Adding contact via buttonAdd to... works different way that draging selected addresses to To field. In forst case every entry has a row in second case all are in one row.

Comment 1

[Steve Simms]

Confirmed in 2.0.0.16 on Linux.  This could probably be either a bug or an enhancement request, depending on how you look at it, but since Select All does work in the address book, I'm going to lean toward calling it a consistency bug.

Shift-up/down arrows can be used to select multiple addresses in the address book sidebar, so there's an easy workaround, and it hopefully means it won't be hard to implement.

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

this is wfm on Windows XP both tb9 and trunk (11.0a).
Ludo, can you (have sb.) check for MAC OS?

I'd think this can be closed wfm.

(In reply to Frantisek from comment #0)
> Adding contact via buttonAdd to... works different way that draging selected
> addresses to To field. In forst case every entry has a row in second case
> all are in one row.

This part may need a new bug.

Comment 3

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

(In reply to Thomas D. from comment #2)
this is wfm on Windows XP both tb9 and trunk (11.0a).
Ludo, can you (have sb.) check for MAC OS?

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

@Ludo: Thank you! That was quick! :)