Re: [Evolution] PreviewPane accelerator

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

AFAIK the only reason for abandoning single-letter accelerators was to
enable keyboard selection of folders. I too have suffered from this (and
complained about it several times), but I'm against localizing
keybindings as a solution. I can remember when MS apps used Ctrl-G on
Spanish versions (meaning "Guardar" == "Save") and absolutely hating it.
Luckily they decided years ago to standardize across all languages and
now everyone just knows that Ctrl-S is Save, no matter what language
they use. YMMV of course.

I absolutely *never* use kb selection of folders. To me changing folders
counts as a relatively important operation and I see no problem in doing
it with the mouse (it would be a lot easier if one could configure the
folder order in the left pane), so my personal preference would be to
restore the old behaviour, but in the meantime I mapped Preview Pane to
Ctrl-Alt-P (note that Ctrl-P is Print).

poc

On Mon, 2005-01-10 at 22:24 +0100, Francisco Javier F. Serrador wrote:
> 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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