GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 787002
Add shortcuts for Labels
Last modified: 2017-10-04 16:54:13 UTC
Hello. I'm considering switching to Evolution. However in Thunderbird I got used to quick shortcuts using numbers to assign tags to e-mails. That helps me to separate Done, Important, Urgent, Pending... For me it is really convenient when I can do this by single key as I'm receiving quite a lot of e-mails. In Evolution, I have to right click, select Labels and then type of Label (although there are accelerators, clicking is still necessary). It would be really useful for me and ATM it is a blocker for me. Thank you very much.
Thanks for a bug report. Labels are tricky, because their menus are generated dynamically, but I think it's doable.
I made it with the below change. It's '0' for "None" and '1'..'9' for the first nine labels in the popup menu. They do not show up in the popup menu for me, even I believe I did everything right, but they are there and they are working. Created commit 5f626e0 in evo master (3.25.92+)
That was fast. Splendid. Thank you very much.
As reported downstream [1], this change has a side effect, one cannot type numbers on the standard keyboard (not numeric keyboard) in the search field and eventually elsewhere, because the actions "consume it". [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498484
The fix is to allow labels only if the message list is focused, when also the context menu contains the Labels. Created commit 0b6a4a7072 in evo master (3.27.1+) Created commit 96f935b647 in evo gnome-3-26 (3.26.2+)