Re: [Evolution] Shortcuts

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 03:28, René Seindal wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 00:13, Dave Barton wrote:
> > On Fri, 2002-11-29 at 08:20, René Seindal wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I have just installed Evo1.2 from Debian unstable, on a Debian testing
> > > system.  I had quite some problems with imap and subscriptions which I
> > > have ironed out.
> > 
> > Sorry, can't help you there.
> > 
> > > My main grievance now is the lack of keyboard shortcuts.  Where are they
> > > all?  I especially miss q which switched there preview pane on and off. 
> > > I used it a lot, and now its gone :-(
> > 
> > Most are still there, but have been moved around a bit ?:/
> > The toggle preview pane is now the ~ (tilde) key.
> 
> I just discovered a tiny ` in the menu for View | Preview Pane, but on
> my Danish keyboard it was nowhere to be found.  After searching a bit I
> found it on AltGr-Shift-v, but it didn't work, probably because of the
> shift-key.  I remapped it with xmodmap to AltGr-v, and it works, but it
> is very cumbersome, as I have to release the AltGr key each time.
> 
> Why on earth have such a silly character been chosen?  We don't all use
> American keyboards, so shortcuts involving punctuation will cause
> problems with different types of keyboards, maybe with the exception of
> dot and comma.  Having a shortcut on single back quote is plain silly.

I have no idea why that was chosen, other than i think q couldn't be
used anymore, and ` is close to q on *some* american keyboards.  On this
one its over past enter - not very convenient either.

> Whats wrong with the function-keys?  As far as I can see, only F9 is
> used.

function keys seem to be used by window managers a lot, at least with
qualifiers.  the other problem is they're usually hard to remember.  i'd
be in favour of using them more, but its a ui issue.