522555 - Backspace key does not delete the message. (Pushing bug #285117 a different way)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 285117

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, enhancement)

Description

[Michel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090910 Ubuntu/9.04 (jaunty) Shiretoko/3.5.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.9.1.4pre) Gecko/20090915 Thunderbird/3.0b4

Bug #285117 is related to the Backspace key not acting on Linux the same way it does on Mac.
OK, it's not a bug.
But be conscious that some hardware do not have a Suppr key or have a real small one, think about laptops, and yeah, especially Apple ones.
So the feature request is : please add a Preference that would allow Backspace to behave like Suppr if the user wants it to.

Thanks a lot to the team, this v3 is gonna help me make my way out of Apple Mail :-)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.On Linux
2.Select a message line in the main window
3.Press BackSpace... 
4. Imagine a checkbox in the prefs to bind that key...

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

note the comment " this v3 is gonna help me make my way out of Apple Mail". Might that be a universal sentiment?

would we (or seamonkey in theory) accept such a patch?
Or do we consider this still a duplicate of bug 285117? ... And by extension, the solution to be an extension :)

Comment 2

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Per Wayne's comment 1, this looks like a dupe of bug 285117 imo should be marked such. No dupes, no comments, so it doesn't look like a common problem, either.