GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 713318
Space should advance to next unread message
Last modified: 2019-07-21 14:13:17 UTC
---- Reported by geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2012-04-21 06:37:00 -0700 ---- Original Redmine bug id: 5098 Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/5098 Searchable id: yorba-bug-5098 Original author: Christian Dywan Original description: I'd like Space to advance to the next message when at the end of a conversation. I don't even know what hotkey to try since I never use something other than space. Related issues: related to geary - Feature #5546: shortcut keys for next/previous conversation (Open) ---- Additional Comments From geary-maint@gnome.bugs 2012-04-23 14:18:00 -0700 ---- ### History #### #1 Updated by Adam Dingle over 1 year ago I'm not sure I understand - if you're at the end of a conversation and you press space, you'd like to go to the beginning of the next conversation? If so, is that the next newer or the next older conversation? #### #2 Updated by Christian Dywan over 1 year ago By 'next' I mean 'next unread/ new conversation'. I use arrow keys otherwise if I want to select another one. I suppose Space is the "let me continue reading" key here. #### #3 Updated by Adam Dingle over 1 year ago Christian, let's discuss this more when you're in California. We're already considering adding shortcut keys to go to the next/previous conversation so perhaps those would be good enough. --- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-21 20:20 UTC --- This bug was previously known as _bug_ 5098 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5098 Unknown Component Using default product and component set in Parameters Unknown version " in product geary. Setting version to "!unspecified". Unknown milestone "unknown in product geary. Setting to default milestone for this product, "---". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one. Resolution set on an open status. Dropping resolution
I have tried using Geary for my work e-mail a bit and lack of a way to "next unread e-mail" makes it very hard to use efficiently. I receive many many e-mails every day, I may very well miss or skip some with the intention of reading it later. Then several hundreds of mails later I'd like to see what mails I have left to read. The only way I have to find these is to scroll through looking for unread mails by looking for the unread icon. That can be quite tiresome if you receive hundreds of mails every day, and even more so if I skipped reading it for more than one day.
After having used Geary for a while as my main e-mail client the lack of a keyboard shortcut to next unread message is one of the toughest features to live without. In fact, there should be two keyboard shortcuts for this kind of navigation. One to simply go to the next unread message and one that scrolls down current unread, scroll down and on to the next. On other mail clients the space bar is used for the latter and [ and ] to go to the next and previous unread e-mail directly.
Another comment on this since it is still no way to navigate to the next unread message. I often have to scroll through large inboxes to find that one unread message. The way it could be implemented is the same as in Evolution and Thunderbird (and other lesser known email clients): Space scrolls down the current message body, when you come to the bottom of the message it jumps to the next *unread* message. When there's no more unread messages in the folder you jump to the next folder and then next account with a folder with unread messages. All using the space bar only.
*** Bug 720569 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 737573 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
In a related feature (sorry, not sure it is a separate bug), Geary has option for "auto select message". However, because the message list is sorted newer->older, the "next" message is the older one. This is not helpful. I want to read my new emails in time order, older -> newer. That way I can correctly follow the thread of certain mails (yes, conversations reduce this problem, but related information is not always in the same conversation). I prefer sorting older->newer, but OK, never mind. However, I need to be able to read through the new emails in reasonable order with minimal keystrokes (and preferably no mouse).
Still no way to navigate to next unread message? I'm trying 0.10.0 and I can't find out how. It makes it impossible, at least for me, to use Geary as my daily driver e-mail client. Using 'Space' for this like in other known e-mail clients seems like the obvious solution. Still hoping that it will be implemented. I'll check back after another few months.
I think previous comments are about jumping to next unread message in the current folder/label. I wish for a way to jump to the next unread message globally. Meaning across accounts and folders, selecting the folder the message is in. Use case: I work a lot with filters so unread messages are spread over different folders and it's tiresome to manually select folder by folder using the mouse.
Do you know you can search for unread messages per account? It's not exactly what you want, but at least you don't have to select each folder. The search string depends on your locale. Examples: - english: is:unread - italian: è:nonletto
I tried that already and it's not working great because: - you have to type - it's not cross account - you have to select the right account first and that is weird because the search results are not updated and closing results, selecting another account and then searching again didn't work so well - messages get marked as read automatically, so when I click to somewhere else and go back to the search, the previously selected message is gone and I have no idea where it cam from.
*** Bug 792242 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Bump tickets to 0.14 that aren't going to make 0.13.
The spacebar now moves focus to next message in the conversation viewer, which matches common use of of it in web browsers (i.e. scroll the page down), so I'm going to WONTFIX this. People can use the down arrow or j/k when the conversation list is focused. See also https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/geary/issues/505