[Bug 304563] New: Akregator 4.9.0 handles keyboard input badly when focus is on article list

[Frank Steinmetzger]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=304563

            Bug ID: 304563
          Severity: normal
           Version: 4.9
          Priority: NOR
          Assignee: kdepim-bugs at kde.org
           Summary: Akregator 4.9.0 handles keyboard input badly when
                    focus is on article list
    Classification: Unclassified
                OS: Linux
          Reporter: Warp_7 at gmx.de
          Hardware: Gentoo Packages
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
         Component: general
           Product: akregator

Dear devs

Starting with 4.9.0, Akregator introduces different (and IMHO wrong) behaviour
when the focus is on the article list:

When pressing cursor up/down, the previous/next article is shown. This should
not happen because:
- cursor left/right are assigned to those actions by default. Cursor up/down
are not assigned, and hence they should not trigger them.
- it is common practice in programs like this (such as KMail and KNode), to
have cursor up/down instead scroll the article, regardless of where the
keyboard focus is (which was also Akregator's behaviour before 4.9)

Konqueror offers to use vi-like shortcuts such as j/k to scroll down/up,
respectively. This worked nicely in the 4.8 series, but now, the article
doesn't scroll anymore, only the article list jumps around its centre when
pressing j.

Thanks for your consideration.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
- Click on an article in the article list.
- Press cursor up/down
Actual Results:  
The previous/next article is shown.

Expected Results:  
The shown article should scroll up/down.

Some would say that the new behaviour is more intuitive (because if the article
list is focused, then all keyboard input should affect that list). However, it
is less practical because that way it becomes impossible to fully navigate a
feed with the keyboard only.

-- 
You are receiving this mail because:
You are the assignee for the bug.