474555 - "Add account" key shortcut collides with "move to beginning of line"

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 207510

(Thunderbird :: Account Manager, defect)

Description

[Kay Roepke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081204 Thunderbird/3.0b1

When in the "account settings" sheet, the "Add Account..." button is assigned the key shortcut Ctrl-A which is normally reserved for "go to beginning of line".
 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.  Open the "settings" for an existing account.
2. Try to edit any text field on the right hand half of the dialog and press Ctrl-A.
3. The "Add Account..." button will activate and take you away from editing your account. 


Expected Results:  
Honor system keybindings, do not overload them, the same problem appears in the "Find" bar when searching in a message (Ctrl-A here means "Match All").

Comment 1

[hansen]

I don't have Mac, but isn't shortcuts activated the same way as Win/Linux?

Meaning Alt+A would activate "Add Account..." and CTRL+A would select all text in the active text field.

If I'm all wrong, then please beta2 or the latest nightly.

Comment 2

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

Hahaha, "same way as Win/Linux?". So very much no.

Kay: if you don't feel the need to ever use accesskeys in chrome (which... who would? you can't tell what they are, after all, other than dialog buttons where you can sometimes guess correctly), you can stop them from bothering you by setting the pref (in Thunderbird - Preferences - Advanced - Config Editor) ui.key.chromeAccess to something you'll never hit, like 14 (which would mean pressing ctrl+option+cmd+a to trigger Add Account). Or if you do want to be able to use them, you can figure out what on earth we *can* use, in bug 207510.