47917 - Fails to delete all selected messages using Right click/Delete

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, defect, P3)

Description

[fenella]

Linux (2000-08-04-21 M18) and (2000-08-07-04 M17) 
Win32 (2000-08-06-21 M18) and (2000-08-04-05 M17)
1. Launch Messenger
2. From Inbox of my IMAP account, click on a message
3. Press Ctrl key and click on a few more ( about 3) messages
4. Do a Right Click on the mouse

Actual result: Only the last message was selected. The previous selected message
were de-selected. This disallows me to use Right Click Delete to delete all
selected messages. 

Expected result: When I do a Right Click on the mouse, the previous selected
messages should not be de-selected, and that I should be able to do a Right
Click/Delete to delete all selected messages.

This occurs on Linux and Win32 both in POP and IMAP accounts.

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

front end.

Comment 2

[lchiang]

cc: leger - Jan - this is the bug jmartin reported in case you need to respond 
back to him.

Comment 3

[lchiang]

selmer says we have a dupe bug on this, but I can't find it.

Comment 4

[lchiang]

Perhaps it's similar to http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=31956?

Comment 5

[scottputterman]

mail triage marking nsbeta3+

Comment 6

[lchiang]

selmer says this is a dupe bug of hyatt's, but I cannot locate it.  cc: John 
Morrison to see if he can help.

Comment 7

[John Morrison]

I think this is (likely) a duplicate, but I cannot find a match. (There is 
bug 42080 for D&D of a multiple selection, but this is a different thing). 

At any rate, I think this will work if the treeBindings.xml is modified to 
'discard' the right click when a multiple selection is already in effect. 
CC: bryner to see if he agrees (and perhaps take this one onto his plate).

Something like (in the first onclick handler for id="treerows"):

  if ( event.button == 3 && parentNode.selectedItems.length > 1 )
    return; 

That way, the selected items do not change out from underneath what a context
menu is going to do. A delete will operate on the already-selected items, not
a new single-row selection created by the right-click.

(By the way, if have a multiple selection in the threadPane and do right-click, 
then move the mouse to open the 'Copy to' folder, the entire context menu will 
change. Weird, but a side-effect of this "changing selection" thing.). 

Comment 8

[John Morrison]

*** Bug 50153 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[lchiang]

second pass: - per mail triage

Comment 10

[scottputterman]

Sorry for the extra email. Removing mail6 keyword.

Comment 11

[John Morrison]

*** Bug 54785 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 12

[scottputterman]

reassigning to sspitzer

Comment 13

[Brian Ryner (not reading)]

I tested and found this to be fixed with my checkin for 59465.

Comment 14

[esther]

changing qa contact to sheelar

Comment 15

[Sheela Ravindran]

verified on win98 and linux for imap and pop accounts