GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 262777
Keyboard bindings lacking
Last modified: 2013-09-10 14:03:33 UTC
Please fill in this template when reporting a bug, unless you know what you are doing. 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 th ese areas. Steps to reproduce the problem: Assume I have new mail in two folders (neither of which are currently selected), and that the folder sidebar currently h as 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 whe n 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. Actual Results: Having to press buttons (more than one) several (7+-2), and variable number times to move focus between the main parts of the mail view. Having a presumably common function of jumping to the next unread message not working independently of focus, and bound to a glyph "]" that makes it inaccessible in some locales. Expected Results: Having a key combination that will always move focus to the sidebar, one that will move you to the folder pane, and one to move to the message pane - just like the Ctrl-F1 - Ctrl-F4 for the other main functions. Reportedly, "." is/will do "next unread message" in later versions of Evo than I have (though I can't really test a newer version due to lack of RPMs). binding anything to "{[]}" is a bad idea for some keyboard locales, though. How often does this happen? Additional Information:
, and . have been bound since like... forever.