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Bug 262777 - Keyboard bindings lacking
Keyboard bindings lacking
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
1.5.x (obsolete)
Other All
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-08-10 09:25 UTC by Janne
Modified: 2013-09-10 14:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---



Description Janne 2004-08-10 09:25:01 UTC
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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:
Comment 1 Jeffrey Stedfast 2005-03-01 20:13:16 UTC
, and . have been bound since like... forever.