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 -- debconf information: * mozilla-thunderbird/browser: Debian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
