[#6760] Strange right-click behavior with FF on Mac
Summary Strange right-click behavior with FF on Mac
Queue DIMP
Queue Version HEAD
Type Bug
State Resolved
Priority 2. Medium
Owners Michael Slusarz <slusarz (at) horde (dot) org>
Requester Jan Schneider <jan (at) horde (dot) org>
Created 05/26/2008 (134 days ago)
Due
Updated 06/03/2008 (126 days ago)
Assigned 06/03/2008 (126 days ago)
Resolved 06/03/2008 (126 days ago)
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06/03/2008 Michael Slusarz Comment #8
Priority ⇒ 2. Medium
State ⇒ Resolved
Taken from Jan Schneider
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Yes, I don't want to miss it, but it already works with right-click
*without* Ctrl.
Yeah - that makes sense.  Made the fix to DIMP 1.0.1.
06/03/2008 CVS Commit Comment #7 Reply to this comment
06/03/2008 Jan Schneider Comment #6 Reply to this comment

Was this a typo? Because if Macs really send Ctrl-RightClick, then we
can safely catch this, we don't use that combination anywhere, only
Ctrl-LeftClick as outlined below.
Nope, not a typo.  Ctrl-right click should select a message *without*
showing the preview - this was specifically coded due to feedback
from users at SAPO.  This allows people to delete messages that they
know are SPAM without causing the preview to trigger.  It is very
useful.
Yes, I don't want to miss it, but it already works with right-click 
*without* Ctrl.
06/03/2008 Michael Slusarz Comment #5 Reply to this comment
Was this a typo? Because if Macs really send Ctrl-RightClick, then we
can safely catch this, we don't use that combination anywhere, only
Ctrl-LeftClick as outlined below.
Nope, not a typo.  Ctrl-right click should select a message *without* 
showing the preview - this was specifically coded due to feedback from 
users at SAPO.  This allows people to delete messages that they know 
are SPAM without causing the preview to trigger.  It is very useful.
06/03/2008 Jan Schneider Comment #4 Reply to this comment
And the obvious reason why clicks are different - Macs don't have
right buttons.  So any Mac right button emulation sends a 'ctrl-right
click' on a mousedown event.  This is causing toggling of the
selection of that message because that is the expected behavior for a
ctrl-click on a message.
Was this a typo? Because if Macs really send Ctrl-RightClick, then we 
can safely catch this, we don't use that combination anywhere, only 
Ctrl-LeftClick as outlined below.
We can add an extra check to only do ctrl-click processing of a
message on a left click.  That will fix this problem but at the
expense of disallowing multiple ctrl-click on other platforms - this
can be quite useful because it allows multiple selection without
worrying that a preview will be triggered.  Suggestions?
06/03/2008 Michael Slusarz Comment #3
State ⇒ Feedback
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And the obvious reason why clicks are different - Macs don't have 
right buttons.  So any Mac right button emulation sends a 'ctrl-right 
click' on a mousedown event.  This is causing toggling of the 
selection of that message because that is the expected behavior for a 
ctrl-click on a message.

We can add an extra check to only do ctrl-click processing of a 
message on a left click.  That will fix this problem but at the 
expense of disallowing multiple ctrl-click on other platforms - this 
can be quite useful because it allows multiple selection without 
worrying that a preview will be triggered.  Suggestions?
06/03/2008 Michael Slusarz Comment #2 Reply to this comment
Doesn't surprise me.  From experience, FF on Mac does not handle click 
events like other versions of FF (Linux/Windows).
05/26/2008 Jan Schneider Comment #1
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Assigned to Michael Slusarz
Assigned to Jan Schneider
Queue ⇒ DIMP
Summary ⇒ Strange right-click behavior with FF on Mac
Type ⇒ Bug
Priority ⇒ 1. Low
State ⇒ Assigned
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With Firefox on Mac, if you select a message in the message list, and 
then right-click on that message, it gets unselected and thus the 
context menu items don't do anything.