RFC: Making focus information visible for panes

Kevin Krammer kevin.krammer at gmx.at
Sun Dec 3 14:45:49 GMT 2006


On Friday 01 December 2006 01:02, Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> On Thursday, 30. November 2006 21:03, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > KMail is a particularly bad example for this because KMail is focus-less
> > by design (safe for a few bugs). In KMail always the main window has
> > the focus.
>
> And I appreciate that fact very much.

Exactly. Almost focus-follows-mind because I know beforehand which part of the 
UI is going to react.

> Akregator on the other hand, while having a similar interface, always runs
> into focus issues, so a couple of things doesn't work when you don't click
> into the message viewer pane.

Exaclty. In my case usually Page up and Page down, which move the selection on 
the feed tree view instead of in the posting.

> Oh right, I should open a bug for that.

I'll vote for it

> Anyways, thanks for making KMail so robust with regard to these issues.

Agreed, thanks a lot.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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