Re: [Evolution-hackers] Firefox style search bar in evolution

[Rodney Dawes <dobey novell com>]

It is going to stay C-f for now for Forward. Find in Message is C-A-f in
the new menu layout. We were originally planning on making it C-f for
Find, but too many people complained, so we compromised to just make C-s
not be Find. C-s in the new menu layout, is for Save.

-- dobey


On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 12:14 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 12:05 -0400, Bryan Clark wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 11:53 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > How do you forward a message now?
> > > 
> > > IMO Ctrl-F for Forward was a horrible usability problem anyway, 99% of
> > > users expect it to mean Find.  I still hit Ctrl-F most of the time, then
> > > have to close the windows that pops up and hit Ctrl-S.  Ugh.
> > 
> > Hmm, I'd ask the evolution usability experts to figure out that
> > keybinding problem.
> 
> Ctrl-F -> Find, Shift-Ctrl-F -> Forward makes more sense than the
> current behavior.  I don't know about you but I use Find 100x more often
> than Forward.
> 
> Lee