Re: Balsa Development Plans

["Jesse D . Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

On Sun, 28 Feb 1999 13:57:13 Stuart Parmenter wrote:
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> Keyboard navigation needs to be worked on.  Could someone that maybe has
> access to lots of different mail clients find out what keyboard things they
> use for everything, and compile a big list, then see what keys are the most
> common and we can use those?  Then possibly later, we can have a keyboard
> mapping so we can allow people to pick a keyboard shortcut "set" that is the
> same as some other mail clients.

Well, in the short term, I think that the biggest thing is just making sure
that the most basic things work.  For example, it would be nice if pressing
the delete key while reading mail deleted messages.  This seems to be not
only very logical, but fairly consistent amongst at least most Winders mail
packages.  Beyond that, the preview pane on the Main Window needs to be able
to scroll by pressing the arrow keys.  Similarly the Mailbox List should be
keyboard navigable with the arrow and enter keys.

I guess what I'm saying is that Menu binding aren't nearly so significant
as the more basic facilities.  After all, menu bindings with GTK+ apps are
easily configurable anyway.  All you have to do is put the mouse over the
appropriate menu and press the new shortcut key, and presto, instantly
changed keybinding!  :)

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Jesse D. Sightler
http://www3.pair.com/jsight/