RE: [Evolution] Spacebar piloting WAS: Keyboard focus request.

["Alex Swavely" <swave_1 yahoo com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher James Lahey [mailto:clahey ximian com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 6:31 PM
> To: Alex Swavely
> Cc: evolution ximian com
> Subject: RE: [Evolution] Keyboard focus request.
>
>
> On 07 Mar 2001 15:07:29 -0800, Alex Swavely wrote:
> > One of the things that many mailers and newsreaders in the
> > Windows camp that use the three-pane display offer is spacebar
> > piloting...
> [...]
> > Basically, in the message list view, if you hit spacebar, the message
> > preview window skips down a page, until it gets to the end of a message,
> > then you hit spacebar again, it marks the message read, and
> > goes to the next one in line in the message view...
>
> We do handle space bar to page down within a message.  We don't go to
> the next message, but you can just press n (or down arrow) to get to the
> next unread message (or the next message).

Oh yeah, BTW, trn does this also.  In fact, as long as you accept the
currentdefault command at any stage, you can just spacebar all throughout
your usenet session...

> > You can't scroll back without changing focus, but...
>
> We actually support this.  The backspace key anywhere will page up
> within a message.  Again you can use p or up arrow to move upwards in
> the message list.
>
> > Oh, and in either the message list pane or the preview pane, if you hit
> > [DEL] it deletes the highlighted message, moving on to the next in line.
>
> This is the main problem with the current code.  It only does this if
> you hit [DEL] in the message list.  It is ignored in the view pane.
> This is in our bugzilla as something that needs to get fixed.
Another useful thing would be to allow users to customize their experience
(and their keystrokes), so if they are coming from Winblows/LookOut!, then
it can act that way, but if they are used to pine/mutt/trn, etc, they can
get it to work like that, etc...


It would be helpful to me if I could migrate my users seemlessly from
Windows desktop to Linux, and for that to happen, their Outlook experience
HAS TO carry over, and since the looks are already right, only the feel is
left over.  But still, having my power users able to do what they want
without feeling cramped is at least as important...


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