Re: [Evolution] PreviewPane accelerator

["Francisco Javier F. Serrador" <serrador tecknolabs com>]

It is a feature that Spanish (German, French and the like) cannot use
easily with current keystrokes. Some people just argue "In Outlook I can
disable Preview panel with a key, why Evolution cannot?

The ancient evolution 1.2 used "Q" key by default, and that worked
perfectly. I think that using a non alphanumerical key for quick access
is a receipt for having troubles in other keyboard layouts. 

I think there are some workarounds we can use: 
1.-  Changing the keybinding and use a more suitable key for
localization. (Q, Ctrl-P, etc)
2.-  Keybinding internationalization, and let the localization groups
assign the more suitable keys. (Here, I'm thinking about languages as
Japanese, Chinese, and others which do not use our alphabet and in this
way they could provide more suitable and easy to remember keybinding.

Finally, If the las option is used, I think the HIG should give some
guidelines about keybinding election.

What do you think?
  

El lun, 10-01-2005 a las 00:18 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan escribió:
> Not Zed wrote:
> > Why not just use the menu?  I never ever activate the option unless i'm 
> > testing it, it isn't needed for normal usage.
>
> It's essential to be able to turn off the preview pane if you want to 
> select a message without fetching it from a remote server (because it's 
> big, or you don't want to mark it as read, or whatever). Maybe that's 
> not "normal usage" for some, but it is for others, and having to pull 
> down a menu and hunt for the option is a pain in the posterior.
>
> poc
>
> > On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 00:25 +0100, Francisco Javier F. Serrador wrote:
> >
> > > There is a problem with the current accelerator on non-English
> > > keyboards. Actually we are making a county-wide deployment of evolution
> > > in a Spanish location environment, and the Preview panel is unuseable.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to map that accelerator to an other less conflictive key
> > > upstream?
> > > I know how to fix that issue, but we are asking you to resolve it
> > > globally.
> > >
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