Bug 24725 – Mozilla-1.4 Mail: CTRL+SHIFT+C no longer marks a mail folder as 'All Read'

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Daniel Kasak 2003-07-18 04:05:42 UTC]

CTRL+SHIFT+C is supposed to mark an entire mail folder as 'read'. It's a
short-cut for the menu selection Message ==> Mark ==> All Read.
It still works if you use the mouse to select the menu item, and it also works
if you use the 'long' short-cut: Hold ALT and press ( in sequence ) MKA.
Anyway, it doesn't work for me any more.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Select a mail folder which has some unread email.
2. Press CTRL, ALT and C together.
3. Watch as nothing happens.

Actual Results:  
Nothing.

Expected Results:  
All mail in selected folder should be marked as 'read'.

root@enthalpy dan # emerge info
Portage 2.0.48-r1 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gaming-r5 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1600+
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage"
USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode gif jpeg kde libg++ mad mikmod mmx motif
mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml
berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo svga tcltk java guile sdl gpm tcpd pam
libwww python esd oggvorbis gtk qt opengl mozilla cdr X gtk2 gnome dvd 3dnow
imlib alsa directfb aalib imap ssl innodb fbcon gd perl mysql freetds radeon
gdbm postgres"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops
-fexpensive-optimizations -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fforce-addr
-frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -mmmx -msse -m3dnow"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops
-fexpensive-optimizations -maccumulate-outgoing-args -fforce-addr
-frerun-cse-after-loop -frerun-loop-opt -mmmx -msse -m3dnow"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"      
MAKEOPTS="-j2"                  
AUTOCLEAN="yes"                 
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"       
                                
root@enthalpy dan #

[Comment 1 Jeremy Heslop 2003-09-26 06:27:08 UTC]

still broken in 1.4-rc4....I really liked this feature.

[Comment 2 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) 2003-12-07 16:44:41 UTC]

is this still an issue since 1.5 is stable now ?

[Comment 3 J.O. Aho 2003-12-13 11:33:47 UTC]

I have too had this problem, so I decided to write a bug report at mozilla.org, but first checked if anyone else had reported this bug, and I did find others with this bug.

This is a "bug" in gtk2 that causes the Ctrl-Shift key combinations in mozilla to stop working. http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=186789

When looking at the Gentoos ebuild for Mozilla, the gtk2 option seems to be always selected:

IUSE="java crypt ipv6 gtk2 ssl ldap gnome debug"

I have to admit that I do not understand everything of the ebuilds, still missing my beloved RPM spec files.


But the bug fix in this case is to disable gtk2 (why not use qt instead?) and this bug will continue to be in all future versions of Mozilla untill there has been a change in gtk2 (which I do not belive will happen).

[Comment 4 Aron Griffis (RETIRED) 2004-04-07 20:32:08 UTC]

Not going to fix this problem at the distribution level.  You can use USE=-gtk2 to select a different GUI for mozilla if you want, but it's up to the mozilla and/or gnome people to come up with a solution ultimately.