Re: [Evolution] Any suggested workarounds for yet one more interface quirk?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj novell com>]

use Space and Backspace like every other mail client

Jeff

On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 18:31 -0700, Evolution List wrote:
> Bryan recently suggested using VFolders to keep track of unread emails.
> That was a  GREAT suggestion Bryan!  One that is working beautifully and
> keeping me from having to manually find unread messages in each of the
> folders to which my filters send them as a result of seemingly
> unreliable key presses and scroll bar shenanigens :).  
>
> Anyway I have a new interface quirk that I would surely appreciate
> similar input on how to get around from anyone that might have a viable
> solution.  
>
> Specifically....I am focused, at least I think I am, on the pane
> containing message lines like From, To, etc..  In my Evolution the pane
> is in the upper right.  The blue highlight bar is present over a message
> (at least in Gnome).  Okay that's the background.  
>
> Now I would like to be able to scroll down through the email, whose
> contents appear in the pane just below the aforementioned one, such that
> I could read through the email WITHOUT loosing my ability to traverse
> from one message to the next in the upper right pane previously
> mentioned.  
>
> Currently the only way I can do that is to go over to my mouse, use the
> middle scroll wheel, scroll through my message and then come back to the
> keyboard to down arrow to the next message.  Oh I think I can use the
> Tab key as well but since their is no clear indication of where I am
> focused by using the Tab key it's also frustrating to use that approach
> because sometimes tabbing ends up in places I did not intend to go. 
>
> This is a major PITA for those of us who like to use the keyboard as
> much as possible without having to rely on the mouse.  If you are on the
> computer as much as I am and end up using the mouse as much as I end up
> having to do, your mouse hand muscles can start to become quite painful
> after 8 or more hours of mousing around. 
>
> Anyway I have tried all kinds of key combinations and nothing seems to
> work in terms of letting me scroll through a messages's contents while
> still able to use the down and up arrow keys to go to the next and
> previous messages.  I mean why can't Evolution allow Ctrl-<downarrow> or
> something similar to allow that?  Why must I have to go over and use the
> mouse again?  
>
> Is there no workaround for this additional very annoying quirk?  Better
> yet are there plans in the works to allow us to define our own keyboard
> shortcuts? 
>
> Oh how I wish that someone on the interface team would be a keyboard
> oriented person!  I say that because it seems unlikely that there is
> such a person on the interface team or else, if there is, that they
> don't have much say so.  I hate to gripe about these interface quirks
> but they are really annoying and quite frankly, quite ridiculous.  
>
> I'm not trying to be offensive.  Just quite frustrated with Evolution's
> interface and how it forces me to work in a less efficient manner than I
> am used to.  
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions for a work around over this latest
> quirk?  I am all ears...
>
> Carlos 
>
>
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