[Bug 204625] New: please change the default "Select All" (text) shortcut to Ctrl+A

[kavol]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204625

           Summary: please change the default "Select All" (text) shortcut
                    to Ctrl+A
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Fedora RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
        ReportedBy: kavol at seznam.cz


Version:            (using KDE 4.3.0)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs

This is basically bug #203088 that was closed as INVALID. As I have no rights
to reopen, I report this new bug. The resolution of the bug #203088 is itself
invalid as the bug *is* present, if you're not going to fix it properly then
the resolution has to be WONTFIX.

The current kmail behaviour is:

the main window:
Ctrl+A selects all messages within the selected folder
Ctrl+Shift+A selects all the text within the selected message

opening separate mail window (doubleclicking a message in the list):
Ctrl+A does nothing
Ctrl+Shift+A selects all the text within the message

the message editor:
Ctrl+A selects all the text within the current field
Ctrl+Shift+A does nothing

This is inconsistent, using different shortcuts for the same actions within one
application is a bug.

I'd suggest to use this scheme instead:

the main window:
Ctrl+A selects all the text within the selected message
Ctrl+Shift+A selects all messages within the selected folder

opening separate mail window (doubleclicking a message in the list):
Ctrl+A selects all the text within the message
Ctrl+Shift+A does nothing (optionally: select just the text of the message
body)

the message editor:
Ctrl+A selects all the text within the current field
Ctrl+Shift+A does nothing

The reasons for this choice of shortcuts assigments are:

* it prevents regression from the previous version
* it is consistent with other applications (Ctrl+A to select all the text lives
with us a long time, and is still actively used, try it in Kwrite, Konqueror
...)
* the more complex shortcut is used just once while the simpler one is used in
all the cases
(it'd be tempting to talk about frequency of the usage, but I have no statistic
data, except my own example that I select all the text quite often while I have
used "select all messages" just once, in error, because I wasn't aware of the
new Ctrl+A meaning)

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