Re: [evolution-patches] Patch to enable cursor and keyboard navigation in mail reader,(v3) revoke previous ones

[yuedong du <yuedong du sun com>]

We agree to use F7 to enable caret mode.

But, what is the best form the option should be implemented as ? Global
variable or gconf ? Global variable means the setting will not be saved
after you exit evolution. A little inconvinience. 

I think gconf is somewhat better, but may involve change of
configuration UI. If we decide to implement it as gconf key, should I
also change the "tools/setting/mail preference" UI?

So Radek and Anna, you opinion?

York

On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 01:04, Anna Marie Dirks wrote:
> Hello York and Radek, 
> 
> York -- I am really impressed by the speed with which you guys have been
> producing these patches! Great work. :) 
> 
> I'm going to reply to Radek's question below: 
> 
> Il gio, 2003-06-19 alle 10:56, Radek Doulík ha scritto:
> > Hi York,
> > 
> > 	I am sorry for the late reply.
> > 
> > 	Your patch looks mostly OK. The problem I see there is that your patch
> > enables cursor in view mode by default. I am Cc-ing Anna as it's a UI
> > issue. I think it will be better to enable cursor in view mode only by
> > keyboard binded command - similar to what Mozilla does - it uses F7
> > IIRC.
> > 
> > 	Anna, what do you think?
> 
> So, my belief is that indeed, this should be optional. To explain:
> 
> There are a lot of people who read their mail by highlighting  sentences
> and/or paragraphs as they read them. I guess that doing this helps them
> to keep track of where they are in the email. Now, currently in
> Evolution, if I highlight some text in the preview pane with my mouse
> and then press the arrow keys to scroll the message a bit, my selection
> remains. Yay. :) 
> 
> On the other hand, if I do the same thing in Mozilla with caret mode
> (aka cursor in view mode) turned on, then, when I scroll the webpage
> with the arrow keys, my selection is lost. 
> 
> This seems unnecessarily annoying to me... what if I had really wanted
> to copy that text?  I think that given this implication of caret mode,
> we should make it optional.. so that people's pre-existing usage
> patterns won't be disrupted unless they so desire.
> 
> Does that seem logical to you?
> 
> best regards, 
> Anna
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