RFC: Making focus information visible for panes

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Sunday 03 December 2006 22:01, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> Am Son Dez 3 2006 schrieb Ingo Klöcker:
> > Because this way the user never needs to remember or check which
> > pane has focus. He can simply press left/right to go to the
> > previous/next message and simply press up/down to scroll the
> > message without having to think about the focus. If the keyboard
> > focus doesn't get in his way then he can much better focus on what
> > he actually wants to do.
>
> Actually, keyboard focus gets in his way, as the quick search line
> consumes the left/right, shift, etc. shortcuts. So this nice paradigm
> of "no pane in kmail has ever the focus" is not entirely true any
> more.
>
> Quite often, i search for a message, switch to a different window,
> switch back to kmail and forget that the quick search bar has the
> focus. I then press space a few times to get to the next unread
> message, which unfortunately does not work....
>
> > The alternative is that you press up/down because you want scroll
> > the message but unfortunately the folder list has focus so that you
> > inadvertently switch to another folder.
>
> This problem already appears with the quick search bar.

Yes, I know. I do also run into this from time to time. If you have a 
suggestion how to fix this, the please speak up. The quick search 
should probably automatically lose focus if the main window loses focus 
(?) or if the user didn't enter anything for 10 seconds (?).

Regards,
Ingo
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