[Tickets #6760] Re: Strange right-click behavior with FF on Mac

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/6760
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 Ticket             | 6760
 Updated By         | Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
 Summary            | Strange right-click behavior with FF on Mac
 Queue              | DIMP
 Version            | HEAD
 Type               | Bug
 State              | Feedback
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Milestone          |
 Patch              |
 Owners             | Michael Slusarz, Jan Schneider
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Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> (2008-06-03 06:01) wrote:

> 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?