581915 - Cannot select multiple attachments using keyboard

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 281046

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[pavel.zahradnik]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Firefox/3.6.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; cs; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100713 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.1 ThunderBrowse/3.3.1

It is not possible to select multiple attachments using keyboard (Shift + Arrow, Ctrl + A) when reading messages. These keyboard shortcuts select multiple messages or folders instead of selecting multiple attachments (looks like attachment area does not get/keep focus). It is still possible to select multiple attachments using Ctrl + mouse click, but this is very inconvenient when there are many attachments.

When composing new message, selecting multiple attachments using keyboard works well.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click message with multiple attachments
2. Click on one of the attachments
3. Press Ctrl + A to select all attachments
Actual Results:  
All messages in folder are selected (conversation view is displayed)

Expected Results:  
All attachments of appropriate message should be selected (to further manipulate attachments)

It is the same when trying to select attachments using Ctrl + Arrow