633811 - TB's Help > About window/dialogue should close with Ctrl+W keyboard shortcut

Status: NEW

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[B.J. Herbison]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:2.0b12pre) Gecko/20110212 Firefox/4.0b12pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110124 Thunderbird/3.1.8 ThunderBrowse/3.3.4

The Help About window should close in response to a control-W from the keyboard.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Help/About...
2.Control-W
Actual Results:  
Help window stays open.

Expected Results:  
Help window closes.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

generally speaking dialogs of this sort don't handle shortcuts. Like most of the menu items on Tools.  (activity manager and error console seem to be exceptions)

Also, Thunderbird tends to follow core (Firefox) behavior for things like Help>About.  Are you also requesting this for firefox?

Comment 2

[B.J. Herbison]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Also, Thunderbird tends to follow core (Firefox) behavior for things like
> Help>About.  Are you also requesting this for firefox?

Yes, bug 633812.

> generally speaking dialogs of this sort don't handle shortcuts. Like most of
> the menu items on Tools.  (activity manager and error console seem to be
> exceptions)

As I commented in the Firefox bug, I don't appreciate the difference between dialog boxes and windows -- the About thing looks like a window to me.

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> As I commented in the Firefox bug, I don't appreciate the difference between
> dialog boxes and windows -- the About thing looks like a window to me.

I'm not the person to do that.
however, I can point out thunderbird does not (yet anyway) have firefox's "new" about layout

Comment 4

[Thomas D. (:thomas8)]

Obviously, we cannot expect users to tell apart fancy dialogues (like Help > About) from fancy windows. Moreover, there's ux-consistency problem because Alt+F4 works to close About dialogue, suggesting that it is a window. So I don't see a reason against having Ctrl+W as an alternative shortcut to make the behaviour consistent with other types of TB windows.

If there are no duplicates, this should be confirmed.

Comment 5

[:aceman]

Actually cmd+W is to close this dialog is implemented for Mac.
But Esc should work on all platforms.