GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 651917
Arrow left/right for closing/opening threads
Last modified: 2016-12-06 15:17:30 UTC
At Launchpad (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/39363) there was a request for opening/closing threads with the arrow left/right keys. Bug 512623 resulting in shift left/right for this. But at LaunchPad there is still the request to use the plain arrow keys. It is possible to change this? Or maybe make this configurable?
What is so hard about Shift+←? Arguments would be nice in bug reports. :)
There is nothing hard about shift left/right (at least when one knows about it), this report is about what users (on LP) expect. Users are trying left/right arrow which is not working instead of shift left/right. (To be honest, I myself did not know about this as well). It seems that (a lot of) users do not expect to use shift left/right in combination with plain up/down I guess.
Where did LaunchPad users they get the idea that left/right arrows should expand/collapse to begin with? Does some other mailer behave this way?
I only use evolution, so I do not know how other mailers behave. But as up/down is browsing up/down trough messages. So it (might) seem(s) that left/right is doing something as well, most logical seems to close/open threads I suppose...
Well, despite the fact that I don't feel strongly for this bug; it looks to me like this is at least currently the behavior in Thunderbird. A quick look and I'm having a bit of a hard time finding out what file would need to be patched though ;)
Plain up/down is used for selection, same as plain left/right, to choose previous/next column in the view. The widget doesn't distinguish between how many columns is shown or which is currently selected, neither its setting for select-full-row. I tend to keep consistent without considering actual view, also because GtkTreeView is using shift+arrows for the same (check in the left folder tree view).