Re: [Evolution] Shortcuts

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 14:36, Eric Lambart wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 13:49, Dave Barton wrote:
> 
> > Good point. I fell into the same trap as the developers did and forgot
> > about non-US keyboards. Anyone know why toggle preview pane was changed
> > from the 'Q' key ?
> 
> All alphabetic shortcuts were removed to support some silly MS Outlook
> feature (if you sort messages by From, To or Subject you're supposed to
> be able to type the first few letters of a one of those fields and find
> those messages immediately, i.e. sorting by "From" and then typing
> "Eric" should find my messages.)  I guess some people must use this
> instead of just sorting and scrolling until you find "Eric", which seems
> simpler to me.

Actually it was because post-outlook users couldn't see the "search" bar
at the top of the mail window, and use sort->press key to run a
"search".