Menus get broken when accessing Thunderbird via message indicator

[Vladimir Mityukov]

Note: I also filed this bug under "Thunderbird Indicator" project: https://bugs.launchpad.net/libnotify-mozilla/+bug/1022856

Hi, I have Ubuntu 12.04 with kubuntu-desktop installed. The problem is reproducible under KDE session, so, I'm not sure if it's Thunderbird Indicator or plasma-widget-message-indicator's bug. It's quite strange, anyway ;-)

Here's how it works on my station:

1. I open Thunderbird via runner or menu (usually it's auto-started);

=> everything works Ok at this point.

2. At some time I access Thundebird via Message Indicator applet (no matter if I click master Thunderbird record or specific folder name with a number of not read messages);

=> I can click folders and messages with left mouse button and get appropriate reaction. But the following actions are broken:

a). If I click any item in the main menu (Files/Edit/etc.) -- nothing happens (it neither expands nor displays any other reaction);

b). if I click on a message with a right mouse button -- there is a popup menu shown for a very little fraction of second and then disappears immediately). So, I can't use context menu either.

Note: there are no error messages in the terminal, while I'm doing all this staff. The only message I get is when I quit the aplication:
$ thunderbird
Error: No such tab mode: chat
-- Exception object --
+ fileName (string) 'chrome://messenger/content/tabmail.xml'
+ lineNumber (number) 465
*
-- Stack Trace --
openTab("chat",[object Object])@chrome://messenger/content/tabmail.xml:465
get_selected()@chrome://messenger/content/chat/imconv.xml:121
()@chrome://global/content/bindings/richlistbox.xml:576

^^^ but this same message I get even if I've not used message indicator.

[Jarno (silvercanarie)]

I have the same problem and also the exact same messages as Vladimir is reporting.
Some additional weird behaviour I noticed when Thunderbird is in the state were right clicking doesn't work anymore, is that double right clicking produces the behaviour one would expect from double left clicking on the currently selected item. This is a rather vague sentence, so let me clarify by example:
I'm in the main screen of Thunderbird and the Mailbox IN of one of my mailboxes is selected on the left panel. I then double right click on any other object in the left panel (such as the Sent folder of a completely different mailbox) then the Mailbox IN item that was selected will expand its subfolders, just as it would if I were to double click it.
I should add that right clicking doesn't even change the focus anymore. So in the example above, the Mailbox IN will stay selected.

[Flyos (pflyos)]

I can confirm on Kubuntu 12.04. Message Indicator seems to be causing it for me too.

[novalu (novalu)]

I have the same problem as reporter on Kubuntu 12.04.1.

[Flyos (pflyos)]

Bug fixed on Kubuntu 12.10 for some reason...