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Bug 245709 - No usable keyboard shortcut to show/hide preview pane
No usable keyboard shortcut to show/hide preview pane
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 227853
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
pre-1.5 (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Anna Marie Dirks
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-07-01 20:40 UTC by René Seindal
Modified: 2003-07-01 23:57 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
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Description René Seindal 2003-07-01 20:40:34 UTC
Description of Problem:
When reading mail in Evolution I have no keyboard shortcut to show/hide the
preview pane.  The View menu indicates ` as the shortcut, but there is no
such key on my Danish keyboard.  I have a dead ` key for entering accents,
and I can enter a ` in a text field by pressing this key followed by a
space, but that has no effect and even if it had some effect, it is very
awkward.  The alternative is via the menu, using M-v p, which is usable but
only just.  It should be a single key stroke, but please, something that is
actually on the keyboard.  It used to be 'q', but it was changed for some
reason.

I use a computer with a Danish keyboard.
I use the C locale, except for LC_CTYPE=da_DK

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Use a computer with a keyboard without a ` key
2. Start Evolution mail
3. Try to enter a ` to show/hide the preview pane

Actual Results:
You can't and the preview pane doesn't show/hide

Expected Results:


How often does this happen? 
Every time.

Additional Information:
Please chose keyboard that works for everybody, which means not using
accepts for shortcuts.  The current shortcut is about as sensible as if you
had used æ og ñ for the shortcut.  Try to type that on a US keyboard!
Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2003-07-01 21:57:41 UTC
probably a duplicate... I know it's been discussed on the lists a year
or so ago...
Comment 2 Gerardo Marin 2003-07-01 23:57:58 UTC
Yay. Jeff corces me to look into ooooold bugs.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227853 ***