Distribution: Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang)
Package: Evolution
Priority: Normal
Version: GNOME2.6. unspecified
Gnome-Distributor: Red Hat, Inc
Synopsis: Keyboard access is lacking
Bugzilla-Product: Evolution
Bugzilla-Component: Shell
Bugzilla-Version: unspecified
Description:
Description of Problem:

To read email comfortably, I need to be able to jump between the folder
sidebar, the mail list of the current folder in the upper right, and the
email display at the bottom. At the moment, there is no convenient way
to move focus between these areas.

Assume I have new mail in two folders (neither of which are currently
selected), and that the folder sidebar currently has focus.

1. use arrow keys to move to the desired folder

2. press Tab five (5) times, followed by down-arrow two (2) times. This
gives focus to the folder view.

3. select the desired email message. 

4. Scroll down in the message with the Space key

5. Try to scroll back a bit, forget that focus is on the folder view, so
you jump to a different message. Go back to the desired message with the
arrow keys, prett Tab once and can now scroll using arrow keys and PgUp
and PgDown.

6. press Tab once or twice (it seems to depend on the contents of the
current message), or Ctrl-Tab some number of times (often, but not
always 1) to get focus back to the folder sidebar.

7. If you haven't given focus to the message view, the number of times
you have to press Tab changes.

8. Being able to jump to the next unread message would be a partial
solution - except that the function doesn't work when you have focus in
the folder sidebar - and is bound to Ctrl-], which in some keyboard
locales (Swedish and Finnish at least) is typed as Ctrl-AltGr-9, which
does not seem to work at all. And in any case, this would only solve it
when you want to read new messages, not when you want to check an old
one.

This is not practical.





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