[Bug 304563] 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

--- Comment #3 from Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7 at gmx.de> ---
Well, using Cursor left/right has always worked to navigate the article list.
After all, they're the default shortcut for the respective actions.

Just to illustrate my use case (and I realise it's *my* use case, others may
handle it differently of course):
I don't read in Akregator that often (every other day or so), but when I do, I
skim through dozens, sometimes hundreds of articles. To get through them
quickly, the left hand lies on the cursor block (to scroll an article I'm
interested in) and right shift (to range-select a bunch of articles in the
article list, so I can delete them). The right hand sits on the mouse. That way
I can very quickly and efficiently navigate through the feed, read the
interesting stuff and delete the rest.

My reasoning is all about saving time when reading. To reach for Tab, I would
have to move the hand over the entire keyboard twice for every article I want
to read. It sounds plain lazy, but if summed up, this amounts to a lot of time.
And using the mouse to set the keyboard focus back and forth also takes much
longer than simply pressing a key which is focus-independent. (I just tried
tab/shift-tab, and it doesn't work for some feeds, like heise.de and golem.de;
the focus gets trapped in the HTML document. It would also not work if I
clicked a link in there).

Don't get me wrong, I appreaciate that finally, after a long time, Akregator
gets some new attention. And if you don't want to bring the old cursor up/down
behaviour back for the old geezers like me who used them since KDE3 times, I
can't force you to, just to satisfy my need for nostalgia.

But then I'd like to ask you to repair the j/k behaviour that got broken in the
process. Right now, j scrolls down the article list with wrap-around, and k
seems to do nothing at all.

Cheers and have a nice weekend.

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