[Kde-pim] Re: Changing key shortcuts in KMail

[José Millán Soto]

2011/7/3 Volker Krause <vkrause at kde.org>:
> On Saturday 02 July 2011 19:32:07 José Millán Soto wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm working in making KMail fully usable by keyboard (as part of the
>> SOC "KMail, Kopete and Dolphin accessibility ") and I think some of
>> the default key shortcuts should be changed.
>>
>> For example using Alt+t for opening a new tab creates a conflict with
>> the "Tools" menu. Also, setting the Up and Down keys to scroll the
>> current message makes it difficult to browse folders with keyboard (as
>> even if the folder list is focused, the Up and Down keys will always
>> make the current message scroll).
>>
>> I propose changing Alt+t for opening a new tab to Ctrl + Shift + t,
>> and the scroll message shortcut to Ctrl+Up and Ctrl+Down.
>
> I'm fine with the tab shortcut changes, that looks like a simple bug to me.
>
> But I'd object to the scroll shortcut changes. The "focus-less" keyboard
> navigation in KMail is intentional, and many of our users are used to that.
> You can navigate through the message list using Left/Right (selection) and
> Alt+Left/Right/Space (current item). Note that the latter is hard to see with
> the Oxygen style, if you try with e.g. Platique you see how it is supposed to
> work.

The main problem is navigating the folder list. You can use
Alt+Up/Down, but I don't think this is intuitive.
What do you think of keeping up and down to scroll the message if
either the message view or the message list is focused but set it to
navigate folder list if the folder list is focused?
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