[MlMt] Rules dialog popping up unexpectedly

Ben Hyde bhyde at pobox.com
Tue Feb 4 15:01:14 EST 2020


On 1 Feb 2020, at 10:39, Eric Sharakan wrote:
> On 1 Feb 2020, at 9:05, Charlie Clark wrote:
>
>> On 31 Jan 2020, at 20:16, Eric Sharakan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi, this one is a minor annoyance, but it happens to me multiple 
>>> times a day.  Often, when the focus is on another App, I'll click 
>>> once in the MM window to make it active, and then click again to 
>>> select a mailbox.  If those two clicks happen quickly enough (under 
>>> a second apart or so), the Rules composition window pops up, and I 
>>> have to explicitly dismiss it.
>>>
>>> Ideally, the click to make MM active would not be "counted" to 
>>> determine whether a double-click action on a mailbox has occurred.  
>>> Is there any way to control this?  Or some way to prevent all these 
>>> unwanted Rules window activations?
>>
>> I get something similar when clicking on messages, the search 
>> function gets activated. While I was using my graphics tablet I 
>> thought this was due to inadvertent double-clicks, but as I still get 
>> it with a mouse I think this is a MailMate bug and probably be filed 
>> as such.
>>
>> Charlie
>
> I fear this is actually a system-wide MacOS thing, as I see similar 
> behavior in other Apps.  Still, I hope Benny can do something in MM to 
> help.
>
> -Eric

I wonder if that might not be related to the system preferences -> mouse 
-> double click speed.  I vaguely moving that toward the faster end of 
the spectrum at some point a few years ago.  - ben
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