RFC: Making focus information visible for panes

Thiago Macieira thiago at kde.org
Thu Nov 30 20:39:44 GMT 2006


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. The downside of this is that one can't use the up/down arrow
>keys for navigating in the message list pane because up/down scrolls
>the message in the preview pane.

It also prevents one from using the Left/Right arrow keys to navigate the 
menubar (after pressing Alt). Or any of the keys that are assigned to a 
shortcut.

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