613787 - Cut, Copy, and Paste items are never enabled in Address Book

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 42085

(Thunderbird :: Toolbars and Tabs, defect)

Description

[Frank Burleigh]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101120 Firefox/4.0b8pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101116 Thunderbird/3.3a1

I am unable to find any scenario in which Cut, Copy, and Paste ever become available in address book.  What are they for?

Reproducible: Always




Since ever "edit contact" function opens a modal dialog (in OS X, anyway), and the menu disappears, Cut, Copy, Paste can't be about field editing.  I might also expect them to apply to selected address book items -- not so: they never become available.

I actually think the behavior is more than cosmetic, since these items shape our perception of what we can do with address book entries.  If I don't know how to drag and drop items, then maybe I conclude that I can't copy or move items to other books (or lists).

Comment 1

[Stefan [:stefanh]]

fwiw, cut/copy/paste can be used in the search field.