Your message dated Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:33:44 +0200
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and subject line #363775 - mozilla-thunderbird: Selecting msgs with shift+click
_fail_ with the slightest mouse movement
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Package: mozilla-thunderbird
Version: 1.0.7-3
Severity: normal
When reading busy mailing list mailboxes, I often need to mark lots of
uninteresting messages and delete them. (Only some topics are of interest.)
The way I do this, is to scroll down the message list until I find something
interesting, then press shift and click on the last uninteresting subject
before the one I want to read. This is supposed to mark all those
uninteresting messages, so I may delete them all with a single keypress.
These days, this _fails_ often. When I click the mouse, especially when
I perform this routine work _fast_, the messages aren't selected.
Instead the mouse pointer turns into a stupid "document icon" as if
I was trying to drag something.
Further investigation show that this happens if the mouse moves when I
click. My sensitive mouse often slide a pixel or two when I click it,
especially whn I'm working fast.
This action is totally bogus. I understand the need of supporting dragging,
but dragging should only happen if:
* I�'m trying to drag thealready _selected_ message(s)
* I'm _not_ holding shift so I'm obviously trying to select & drag a
single message in one operation.
But dragging happened while I was holding shift down, and aiming the
mouse at some not yet selected message, so it was dead wrong.
Suggested userfriendly fix:
Never initiate dragging if the shift key is down and the message under the
mouse is unselected. For this is always a case of the user trying to
mark a range of messages - and the mouse slipped or was still moving
because the user just moved it onto that message for range selection.
Please respect that users doing routine work may be quite good at
moving the mouse quickly from place to place and clicking very
quickly - before the mouse comes completely to rest. Don't force
people into "slow mode".
Helge Hafting
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (700, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15
Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages mozilla-thunderbird depends on:
ii libatk1.0-0 1.10.3-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libc6 2.3.5-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libfontconfig1 2.3.2-1.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2.4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.0.2-5 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.8.4-2 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.8.9-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libjpeg62 6b-11 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libpango1.0-0 1.10.1-2 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.8rel-5 PNG library - runtime
ii libstdc++6 4.0.2-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxext6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System miscellaneous exte
ii libxft2 2.1.7-1 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxp6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System printing extension
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.0-2 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Toolkit Intrinsics
ii xlibs 6.8.2.dfsg.1-11 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-9 compression library - runtime
Versions of packages mozilla-thunderbird recommends:
ii myspell-nb [myspell-di 2.0-23 Norwegian bokmål dictionary for m
ii myspell-nn [myspell-di 2.0-23 Norwegian nynorsk dictionary for m
ii xprint 1:0.1.0.alpha1-13 Xprint - the X11 print system (bin
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* mozilla-thunderbird/browser: Debian
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I attached a workaround to this bug. You can set mouse sensitivity in
gnome or manually as described in README.Debian.
Closing this.
- Alexander
p.s. please take care that the bug is listed as To: or CC: when
replying to this mail (e.g. /reply-all/).
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