Re: [Evolution] Feedback requested on Ctrl-s as shortcut to "save draft", rather than ctrl-shift-s

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2010-02-16 at 15:02 +1100, Nick Jenkins wrote:
> Hello fellow Evo users,
>
> I would like to ask for people's feedback and comments on a proposed
> shortcut key change.
>
> Currently, when composing an email, currently ctrl-s tries to save an
> email to disk (i.e. "save as..."), rather than saving a draft of the
> email to the Drafts folder. ("Save Draft" is ctrl-shift-s).
>
> A request for changing this is logged in bugzilla as:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=554663
>
> This is also a bug which has been included as one of Ubuntu's "one
> hundred papercuts" (which is an project aimed identifying minor
> usability annoyances, sort of similar to Fedora's "fit and finish"), and
> is logged at:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/424416
>
> However, since changing an app's shortcut keys can be intrusive and
> disruptive, the only way to resolve this one way or the other is to seek
> feedback & hopefully some sort of broad consensus from the general
> user-base; hence this request for feedback to this list.
>
> How do people feel about swapping these shortcuts, so that "save draft"
> becomes ctrl+s ? Comments & feedback, both for & against, are most
> welcome.

I would support this. I can't even remember that last time I saved a
message to disk, whereas saving a draft is a common operation.

poc